A brighter future for people most at risk
DSM is a proud partner of the United Nations World Food Programme, the largest provider of food aid to the world’s hungry.
Improving the diet of millions
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) feeds and nourishes an average of 90 million people in over 80 countries every year. By partnering with WFP, we’ve committed ourselves to fighting hunger and malnutrition around the world.
We provide expertise, products and financial assistance under the ‘Improving Nutrition – Improving Lives’ partnership program. This program also helps us improve WFP food supplies through the addition of tailor-made solutions that provide essential micronutrients. Together, DSM and WFP are making a difference in millions of people’s lives.
DSM employees are actively involved with WFP. They organize and participate in events that create awareness around the issue of malnutrition, including the annual ‘’Walk the World’ fundraising event. They also support WFP projects with assignments in Zambia, Guatemala, Kenya and Bangladesh and can work as volunteers on various projects for periods ranging from two weeks to three months. The WFP partnership is important to our employees. It gives them the opportunity to make a real contribution to a global issue where we can make a difference to people’s lives.
Hidden hunger
In addition to the UN World Food Programme, DSM is also a signatory to the campaign to fight hidden hunger.
Hunger is the number one cause of death in the world – it kills more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. And even when people have enough food to survive, its nutritional value varies widely…it may pack enough calories, but often it lacks key nutrients. This is called hidden hunger – malnutrition resulting from vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
An end to malnutrition
DSM is well-placed to help eliminate malnutrition through our long-running SIGHT AND LIFE humanitarian program and the DSM Nutrition Improvement Program. The latter is a business program that provides technical and scientific support for supplementation programs and for the fortification of staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals in developing countries.
The three programs – Improving Nutrition-Improving Lives for the UN World Food Programme, SIGHT AND LIFE, and the DSM Nutrition Improvement Program – work together to find solutions for WFP, but operate separately and have their own objectives.
