Celebrate International Women’s Day by attending Elevate Her: Empower, Inspire, Achieve with the International Rescue Committee and Operation Smile on March 7!
Through this fund, you will join with millions of people to change the world by helping to provide education to teach more productive agricultural practices, distribute food, help farmers adapt to climate change, and teach families about nutrition and diet around the world. Your contributions go directly to supporting real and meaningful work to end global hunger.
Hunger is on the rise again for the first time in years. On World Food Day, I’m thinking of the communities hardest hit by the crisis and what I can do to help. I’m sure I’m not alone in this, but when I think about how we’re going to tackle extreme hunger, I tend to focus on the short-term ways I can support instead of thinking about what caused such a crisis in the first place. The truth is that understanding the reason for extreme hunger is actually how we find a lasting, sustainable solution. Compassion International recently broke down...
Even before entering the Kiomboi Therapeutic Feeding Unit, you can hear babies crying. At this hospital in Tanzania’s Iramba district, extremely sick children fight their way back to health with support from Action Against Hunger. Babies here are receiving treatment for malnutrition. Some are also ill with fever, malaria, and other complications. Dr. Salma Mahayu is part of the team—three doctors and four nurses—who oversee each patient’s care and support their families to learn about health and nutrition. Dr. Salma has been working in this treatment facility since Action Against Hunger established it in 2021. The unit was created to make health and nutrition services more accessible to the hundreds of thousands of people who call Iramba home. Before the Therapeutic Feeding Unit existed, people had to go to the regional hospital more than 60 miles away for lifesaving treatment. Some families couldn’t afford to travel, and many were forced...