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Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over nearly three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity.
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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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Action Against Hunger's programs are sustainable because of our commitment to community participation—to build local capacity and harnesses a population's energy and resources.
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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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Action Against Hunger occupies a unique place among international organizations: our expertise encompasses emergency relief, longer-term development, and the terrain in between.
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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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Student Outreach

Student groups, service clubs, and U.S. schools have all been key allies in the fight against hunger. Schools throughout the U.S. have played a vital role in organizing school- and community-wide activities geared to raising money and awareness to fight world hunger. The following are several interactive projects that can educate your peers and communities while providing for an inspiring way to support concrete solutions for world hunger:

Fast for Awareness

Learn what it is like to experience hunger. Host a Fast for Awareness in your school or community group.

Fast for Awareness is a school or community-wide event to raise money and awareness about world hunger. It is a 24-hour fast, with no food but water and juice allowed, that allows participants to solicit sponsorships for fasting while experiencing something similar to what many in the world today feel on a regular basis. These guidelines are malleable to your event, location, and participants needs. There are many different ways to plan this event depending upon your targeted participants from a 24 hour lock-in to a fast ending with a fundraising banquet and academic panel. The options are infinite!

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Race Against Hunger

Hold a "Race Against Hunger" event at your school! This exciting national event is perfect for middle school students and offers an exciting intro to the complexity and reality of global hunger. Get your students or peers excited about international issues of relief and development and how they can help support Action Against Hunger’s solutions to global hunger!

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Heart of the Congo Film Screening

A story of courage, hope, perseverance, and how humanitarian aid can save lives and make a lasting difference.

Heart of the Congo, a documentary by Tom Weidlinger, chronicles how a handful of Action Against Hunger aid workers try to help Congolese refugees who have lost everything at the end of a war. Amid violence from roving militia, systemic corruption and a legacy of colonial dependence, international and Congolese aid workers struggle to help villagers build a self-sufficient future. Heart of the Congo is a story of courage, hope, perseverance, and how humanitarian aid can save lives and make a lasting difference.

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