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Central to the targeting of malnutrition, Action Against Hunger extends water and sanitation improvements to communities with little or no access to proper sources.
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Though strategies may vary, our food security interventions all share a common goal: to fight hunger by preserving and strengthening livelihoods in a sustainable and contextual manner.
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Action Against Hunger’s innovative food security programs offer a broad range of solutions for generating income, boosting food production, and strengthening livelihoods.
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Our comprehensive approach to hunger involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation.
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We have developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory committee.
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Action Against Hunger helps rehabilitate and restock public health infrastructure, fields mobile health clinics, and trains local medical personnel on preventative and diagnostic care.
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Our comprehensive programs address the linkages between disease and malnutrition by coordinating with local expertise and strengthening existing public health systems.
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Jack Sisson to Inline skate across the United States
June 10, 2008

Twenty-one year old Jack Sisson will undertake a solo trans-America Inline skating trip to increase awareness of global hunger and to raise funds for Action Against Hunger. Sisson will make the 3,800 mile trek from Yorktown, VA to San Francisco, CA over the course of 100 days.

Jack, born and raised in New Canaan, CT, is currently a junior at Dartmouth College, pursuing majors in math and music. While in high school, he was captain of the cross-country team. At Dartmouth, Jack has been a member of the Ultimate Frisbee A-team but has taken a break from that in order to train for his upcoming trip. Jack played ice hockey for many years as a boy and had his first experience on Inline skates while playing street hockey in his driveway.

Jack has been developing plans for this trip over the past two years. “When training for cross-country and while rollerblading around Connecticut, I realized how much more of the area I saw traveling that way. I started to think what an adventure it would be to see the entire country while Inline skating.” A trial run in Florida this past March convinced Jack that his dream could become a reality. As relatively few Inline skaters have completed a cross-US trek, Jack has been using established biking maps as a basis for his route, since those routes target roads with smooth surfaces and low traffic. He will start in early June from Yorktown and hopes to arrive in San Francisco by mid-September.

To make a donation to Skate for Hunger, visit Jack's website.

Interested in catching up with Jack along the route? Want to support him with supplies or lodging? Contact Jack directly to make arrangements.