The organization implements the Feed Our World Program to meet immediate hunger needs worldwide and domestically. It provides nutritious meals in more than 30 countries and current operates in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kashmir, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Yemen.

Through this program, the Penny Appeal USA helps people to lift themselves out of food poverty. The Alliance to End Hunger was established in as a platform for both secular and faith-based organizations to join in fight against hunger.

It has more than 90 members consisting of NGOs, faith-based organizations, corporations, individuals, healthcare providers, foundations, associations and universities. The organization implements the program called The Hunger Free Communities Initiative, that brings together local stakeholders to work on ending hunger in their local communities and across the US.

Additionally, through the National Alliance Partnership Program, the organization builds the capacity of civil societies in developing countries to engage in food security, agricultural and nutrition policy processes. Lastly, the Alliance to End Hunger advocates for ending hunger by bringing together policy makers to learn about the issue of hunger.

Feed the Children was founded in in the US as a non-profit organization focused on reducing childhood hunger. The organization is active in the US and a number of countries worldwide in which it implements a Child-Focused Community Development approach with programs related to food and nutrition, health and water, education, and livelihoods.

Feed the Children works with vulnerable children and local communities to improve their social, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions.

The goal of the organization is to improve the security of mothers and children in the area of food and nutrition by providing them with necessary skills to achieve this.

Feed the Children employs around staff internationally, who work in close relations with other organizations and actors to achieve long-term sustainable changes. Food for the Hungry is an international organization that seeks to end all forms of human poverty by assisting the most vulnerable people in over 20 countries around the world.

The organization follows the Christian belief that every person has intrinsic value and that everyone should be assisted to regardless of their race, religion, or nationality.

Food for the Hungry provides life-changing resources such as food, clean water, medical aid, as well as education and vocational training. The organization actively works on improving livelihoods of communities by providing them with training in agricultural practices.

By implementing new techniques, communities successfully grow enough food and raise enough livestock to feed their families and earn additional income by selling the excess of produce at the market. Caritas International is a confederation of over members working together in almost every country of the world-reaching out to the poor, vulnerable and excluded organizations regardless of their religion and races.

The headquarters of the organization is placed in Rome, while all national Caritas organizations are members of regional Caritas networks and the international confederation. Amongst other issues related to poverty, Caritas advocates for the right to food, where everyone receives adequate and nutritious food.

The organization addresses the lack of food by working on the root causes of hunger. Thus, it actively promotes rural development and agriculture and addresses climate changes to ensure that communities are less vulnerable.

Caritas teaches communities on importance of eating well and growing the right food. During emergencies, Caritas distributes food and provides supplementary feeding to the most vulnerable. The organization believes that providing people with good seed and training to grow food can help in reduction of hunger and improvement of nutrition.

This is achieved by enabling people to grow vegetables which are rich in micronutrients usually missing from their diets and are often essential for health. AIARD is an association composed of international members who have devoted their careers to hunger alleviation and agricultural development.

Members of AIARD are professionals from NGOs, universities, private sector companies and government agencies. The mission of the organization is to improve quality of life of all people by developing global capacities to respond to new challenges and helping to improve food security, eliminate poverty, and protect the environment to stimulate economic growth and sustainable development.

The Association mobilizes support for international agriculture and rural development by influencing policy makers, institutions and donors and informing them on effective strategies to advance these two issues in the global economy.

AIARD also promotes interaction and cooperation amongst all organization involved in international development, as well as expands their abilities to implement development programs.

Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture CNFA was founded in as an international agricultural development organization that specializes in the design and implementation of sustainable, enterprise-based agricultural initiatives.

The organization works with communities, businesses, governments and foundations to meet growing demands for food around the world. The organization assists farmers by enabling agribusiness financing, improving marketing and strengthening the market linkages in Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, the Caribbean and South and Central Asia.

Edesia is a non-profit organization with a mission to help treat and prevent malnutrition of most vulnerable populations in the world. Edesia is known for manufacturing specialized ready to use foods.

Every year Edesia delivers millions of packets of food to malnourished children all over the world through a channel of humanitarian workers, working in the hardest to reach places. Currently, the organization employs around people from 25 countries.

Additionally, Edesia supplies products for organizations working in emergency situations along with the nutrition programming. World Central Kitchen is an NGO that provides meals during disasters. It was founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres in , as a response to earthquake disaster in Haiti.

Since then, the organization has distributed meals in Cambodia, Peru, Cuba, Nicaragua, Zambia, Uganda, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. One of the core activities of the organization is advancing the clean cooking sector by supporting institutional activities and programs in countries, to ensure that women from around the world have affordable access to cleaner cooking solutions in their homes.

Last but not least, the World Central Kitchen conducts culinary programs to school cooks in underserved communities that are conducted by culinary professionals and deal with food safety and training.

WhyHunger is an NGO that works to address root causes of hunger, such as racism, poverty, sexism, classism, homophobia and other forms of oppression. WhyHunger advocates for the right to food by acting in solidarity with social movements around the world. The organization also works to amplify community voices and produces stories and publications to share experiences of its partners as they work towards changing the broken food system.

Mercy Corps is an international organization that provides emergency relief during times of disasters and crisis, and helps communities build resilience to cope with future disasters by providing food security, agriculture education and medical services.

Mercy Corps tackles hunger by addressing its causes and improving systems that enable access to food. Mercy Corps connects farmers around the world to the people and resources to increase their production and feed their families, as well as helps communities to improve their crops and livestock production.

During crisis, the organization provides food assistance when food supplies are short or unaffordable. So far, Mercy Corps has improved access to nutritious food for more than 30 million people around the world.

The Lunchbox Fund is a non-profit organization based in South Africa, working on lunch programs in early childhood development centers providing pre-school education, after school home assistance and skills development programs for orphaned children. One of the main activities of the organization is providing daily lunch at schools for children living in rural areas in South Africa.

The organization monitors participating schools and collects data on the field to ensure the programs are conducted up to its standards. Support to schools is offered for a minimum of one year and sustained as long as school has a need.

Food for the Poor is one of the largest faith-based international development organizations in the US. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Get information on food assistance programs for certain individuals and groups. Programs include SNAP , WIC, the National School Lunch Program and more.

Learn about programs that offer food and nutrition assistance for children, including the School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program. Learn about USDA commodity distribution programs, including The Emergency Food Assistance Program and the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations.

SNAP provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of needy families so they can purchase healthy food and move towards self-sufficiency. WIC safeguards the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 by providing supplemental foods, nutrition education, and healthcare referrals.

USDA's Food and Nutrition Service FNS works to end hunger and obesity through the administration of 15 federal nutrition assistance programs including WIC, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP , and school meals. Find food assistance programs available to certain groups and low-income individuals.

An official website of the United States government. Through our savings and loans groups, women pool their resources and can borrow to invest in a new business or to cope in an emergency. Action Against Hunger uses an environmentally-friendly approach to helps people make the most of their local natural resources — including land, water, soil, and seeds — and grow nutritious foods, diversify their crops, and build up local markets.

Some of these groups come together to collectively rent land for farming, while others share lessons learned with each other. From small grants for families recovering from conflict, to seeds and tools to invest in family farms, to livestock and veterinary services, to small business assistance, we help families regain self-sufficiency.

In Paguir, South Sudan, years of flooding have left the communities with little to no crops and few animals. See how the introduction of rice has transformed their lives. Climate shocks, such as prolonged and severe droughts, can impact the quality of soil, harvest yields, and nutrition levels in food.

We work with farmers to revitalize the earth so crops can thrive. With training from Action Against Hunger, Anceran preserves her crops using solar driers. Now, she grows enough to feed her family and sells the excess to her neighbors.

I never imagined that one day I would have all this. Life has completely changed.

HPNAP helps to fill this gap. For more than 30 years, HPNAP has provided state and federal funds to improve the quality of food distributed to an estimated 2, Emergency Food Relief Organizations EFRO in New York State.

These EFROs include food banks , food pantries , soup kitchens and emergency shelters which have provided more than million meals each year to people who are in need.

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We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again. Ross says families are facing many tough choices, pooling resources to try getting food on the table every day. According to a report released this spring by Dalhousie University, consumers can expect food prices to continue rising this year.

Statistics Canada reported that as of May , grocery prices rose nearly 10 per cent from last year. Judith Barry, co-founder and director of government relations with Breakfast Club of Canada, says nutrition programs for children are critical during the summer months.

But when they go hungry, we are putting them behind, because they cannot strive to be their best selves. Breakfast Club of Canada supports more than 30, Alberta kids in school nutrition programs during the school year, providing breakfast and snacks.

But Barry says there are just as many schools — nearly — now on waiting lists to receive breakfast supports this fall, but funding is lacking.

Officials with the Calgary Food Bank said that while summer is normally less busy, July saw exceptionally high demand, with a record number of hampers handed out.

Spokeswoman Betty Jo Kaiser said the food bank is handing out an average of hampers every day — higher than its average daily peak of at Christmas. In July, the food bank handed out 14, hampers for Calgarians in need, a huge spike from July when 9, hampers were distributed.

And among those needing hampers this summer, Kaiser said 32 per cent are children under the age of 18 — a reflection of school nutrition programs hitting pause. Hunger and food insecurity is always there for so many families. Hoping to fill the summer gaps, the food bank is working with community partners through Food Link, providing snacks and bulk foods to a variety of summer programs including Easter Seals Camp Horizon, Hope Mission After School Programs and Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth.

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