NW Afghanistan, for group discussions with local displaced populations in 2009.
The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo political science department is applauding one of its alumni for his contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic that helped the United Nations World Food Programme (
UH Hilo graduate
Colin Hourihan worked with
WFP, the world’s largest humanitarian organization that combats hunger and food security to move critical medical supplies around the world during the early days of the pandemic.
Colin Hourihan
WFP/ Khudr Alissar
WFP)
“A team of about 100 of us worked tirelessly to make sure that those most vulnerable didn’t succumb to the virus or the knock on effects the pandemic caused,” Hourihan said. “We are now scaling up our work to feed more people than ever before in what is likely the largest humanitarian crisis since [World War