A boy in Afghanistan gets his food supplies from WFP. (Photo: Clive Shirley/WFP )

Mission accomplished...almost. Once food supplies have been successfully delivered, your mission is nearly complete. Now you must develop a long-term plan to help survivors recover from disaster.

Your goal is clear-cut: To help stricken communities provide enough food for themselves so that they can once again thrive.

A critical element of WFP's long-term plan is its school feeding programs. Children who attend school receive free meals there. The cost of the program is just 19 cents per student per day.

"The average American family spends 10 percent of its budget on food," says WFP press officer Maggie Carrington. "In developing countries, they spend 80 percent of their budget on food. By sending their kids to school, that's one less meal they have to worry about. For a lot of kids, it's the only meal they get each day."

The educational benefits of going to class can last a lifetime. For every year a boy goes to school, his farm can be up to 10 percent more productive. Learning to read means understanding directions that are needed to use farm machinery, tools, and supplies.

The WFP's food-for-work program pays workers with food instead of money to build dams, bridges, and wells—structures that are important to helping a community get back on its feet.

The final piece to WFP's long-term strategy is health care programs. They must ensure that babies are born healthy by providing pregnant women with proper nutrition.

"Food is a fundamental building block for healthy societies," says Carrington. "The answer for curing hunger long-term is investing in projects like school feeding, mother and child health, and infrastructure programs."

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Mission 6: Future Farming
Food has arrived in Sheylan and the most difficult moments of the emergency response are behind you, but that's just the start. Disaster-hit communities need support in order to get back on their feet—this is when WFP's long-term development projects become important.

Joe Zaki, originally from Sheylan, is once again with you for the final, Sim-City-style mission. The aim is simple: To ensure Sheylan can provide enough food for itself, that the people are healthy, and the community has the infrastructure to grow. Download Food Force.