NAT: Welcome to the Nobel Peace Prize Hall of Fame.
Not the real one, the list of world leaders,
passionate campaigners and famous institutions
that have worked hard to make the world a better place.
And now there's a new member of this prestigious group.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee
has decided to award
the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020
to the World Food Programme.
The World Food Programme is actually a branch of the United Nations
which is devoted to making sure people have enough to eat.
The World Food Programme was started in 1961,
when the US president at the time
wanted to test what it would be like providing food aid
in humanitarian emergencies.
The test was a success.
The World Food Programme saved lives and, since then, it's helped people
through some of the world's worst wars, natural disasters and famines.
Cut to today, and they're just as important as ever.
Hunger globally is growing, unfortunately.
And when we talk about hunger,
we mean that people aren't able to put food on the table.
Gemma works in Bangladesh, where the World Food Programme
is helping more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees.
They've had to leave everything they had
because of violence in their home country.
And now COVID-19 is making things even harder.
Our main role here is to ensure that people have food to eat
and they have dinner on the table every single night.
But Gemma says her team has a little bit of help.
Let me introduce Foxtrot, who is our WFP mascot,
who we found on the beach here in Cox's Bazar.
He has a very special list of roles and responsibilities at WFP.
His number one role is actually to improve staff morale.
It can be extremely stressful working in an emergency.
There are long hours, lots of challenges to overcome.
Gemma says sometimes workers have to get food
into some pretty remote and dangerous places.
There are so many ways the WFP delivers food to people
and it really depends on the situation
that we're delivering to,
sometimes in a major emergency or a conflict,
then we'll have to use things like helicopters or planes
and even do food drops,
where we do a flyover and we drop food.
Otherwise, we also use trucks, we use boats,
we use any method necessary, really.
But it's not just about emergency relief.
The WFP works with farmers and governments
to try and prevent hunger.
All of this work is expensive.
The WFP gets all of its money from voluntary donations
made by governments around the world, businesses and ordinary people.
Many are hoping the Nobel Prize win will encourage more people to donate,
but for the people who work for the World Food Programme,
it was a surprising and much appreciated moment of recognition.
This is unbelievable.
Talk about the most exciting point in time in your life,
it's the Nobel Peace Prize,
and it's because of the WFP family.
It's humbling to be recognised
with the Nobel Peace Prize this year, definitely.
But I also think it's incredible,
not because WFP won,
but because this is an opportunity
to put hunger on the global agenda again.
As for Foxtrot, well, he's not letting it get to his head,
but I'm sure deep down he's pretty pleased with himself.