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Action Against Hunger | ACF International is a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger.
February 28, 2013
Conflict in Mali continues to threaten the safety and livelihoods of nearly half a million citizens who have fled violence in the nation’s north. Displaced people face food shortages in the wake of devastating droughts, rising food prices, and very limited means to produce food for themselves. The populous city of Gao has become all but a ghost town. ... Read
February 28, 2013
Tens of thousands of people’s lives have been devastated across the southwest of Madagascar after the destructive Tropical Cyclone Haruna swept across the country.
Torrential rains and winds of up to 125 miles per hour destroyed thousands of families' homes and ruined crops and water points. The force of the rising sea burst a major dam north of Tulear, causing water to flood the city and surrounding rural community.... Read
February 26, 2013
Typhoon Bopha, which devastated the Surigao del Sur region of the Philippines when it hit in December, destroyed the livelihoods of more than six million people.
Our teams have been hard at work in the region, supporting the recovery of those affected by distributing food, building temporary shelters and latrines, and delivering sanitation and hygiene training.... Read
February 21, 2013
Our field staff regularly conducts health and nutrition-focused interviews with residents of a rural Andean region of Peru, an area where around 40% of families live in extreme poverty and up to 33% of children under five years old suffer from chronic malnutrition. Six in ten children here are anemic, which means they do not have enough iron in their blood.... Read
February 19, 2013
We just wanted to take a minute to remind you that this Friday, February 22nd at 12pm Eastern Standard Time, thousands of people will capture a shared experience at the exact same time — and you're invited! And what's more, the whole project will help raise awareness and funds for us at Action Against Hunger!... Read
February 13, 2013
It is really, truly possible to reach and treat every child in the world who is suffering from deadly malnutrition. Exciting, right?!... Read
February 11, 2013
Imagine waking up one day to find that you had no national identity. No flag, no national anthem. No public services or public works. No justice system, no infrastructure. It'd be a bad dream, right? Well, that nightmare was actually reality a year and a half ago for what is now the population of South Sudan, the world's newest nation. From the ashes of conflict with its neighbor to the north, South Sudan began the arduous process of literally molding a brand new country.... Read
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