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Action Against Hunger | ACF International is a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger.
November 23, 2011
Action Against Hunger’s year-end auction offers an array of compelling experiences for your holiday gift giving: bid on a once-in-a-lifetime afternoon of cooking and dining with culinary legend Jacques Pépin; go to dinner with New York Magazine ...  Read
A man pumps water from his village's rehabilitated borehole. Photo:C.Brett
November 18, 2011
Three months after devastating monsoon rains caused extensive flooding in southern Pakistan for the second consecutive year, Pakistan faces a critical shortage of emergency funding—despite the government’s request for international assistance—with millions of in need of critical support as winter approaches....  Read
November 14, 2011
Action Against Hunger  launched a new ad campaign in partnership with Ultimat Vodka and branding agency G2. As a year-end visibility campaign set to run in five national magazines, G2’s ad creative presents the issue of deadly hunger in a less orthodox fashion in the hope that it will resonate with American audiences....  Read
November 11, 2011
Philippe Massoud’s education in philanthropy started early. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, to a family of hoteliers, Philippe recalls how his father set aside space in his hotel for the International Red Cross during Lebanon’s long civil war; how his grandfather gave his home and a good part of his estate for the establishment of a school; how his mother could not turn down a plea for assistance from any of Beirut’s poor....  Read
An ACF worker checks on Ivorians displaced. Photo: ACF-Ivory Coast
November 3, 2011
More than six months after contested elections plunged Ivory Coast into political stalemate and nationwide violence, the country has begun to regain relative stability as the chaos subsides, security improves and many communities begin to rebuild....  Read
An ACF-Americas worker walks through floodwater to help Guatemalans.
October 31, 2011
Following torrential rains and flooding triggered by a tropical depression in Guatemala, more than 16,700 families have been affected in the worst hit coastal areas of Escuintla, Santa Rosa, Jutiapa and San Marco, according to an assessment carried out by humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger | ACF International....  Read
Children playing in maize fields in rural Malawi. Photo: Susana Vera
October 27, 2011
As the media report that the world’s population is expected to top 7 billion by the end of October, the subject of global hunger is bound to arise, as is a commonly held assumption about global hunger: “There’s so much hunger because the world is overpopulated.”...  Read

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