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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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ACF Launches U.S. Campaign on Freshwater: "March for Water" Takes Place in Manhattan, New York
Celebrating the International Year of Fresh Water 2003
April 21, 2003

April 22, 2003 New York City - Action Against Hunger, internationally recognized for its leadership in providing therapeutic feeding and water in emergency situations, hosts a "March for Water" to spur an American dialogue on a desperate situation.

The "March for Water" is on World Water Day, March 22. The March will begin at Chelsea Waterside Park 11:00 AM and proceed East on 23 street, North on 8th Ave, and then West on 42nd street to Bryant Park. The March will be an international march with people from around the world - in a tribute to the millions of women and children that walk a long way to bring a small amount of water "home."

"Home" will be Bryant Park and participants will gather at one o'clock for speeches by participants and international water experts.

The "March for Water" is an important action because the international water statistics are daunting: the United Nations reports in 2003, "the Year of Fresh Water," that over 1 billion have no access to clean drinking water and over two billion have no access to sanitation services. As populations continue to grow the demand for water will exceed availability. The water crisis is not just a problem for developing countries; it affects the United States as well. From California to New York water problems and shortages are affecting Americans with unsanitary drinking water and forcing family farms to fold due to skyrocketing water prices.

The "March for Water" is part of a series of events for World Water Day going on worldwide to educate people about the world crisis of water. In Kyoto, Japan, experts are meeting at the Third World Water Forum to try to find solutions and raise awareness to the world's scarcity of clean water. At Action Against Hunger, we believe that education and preparation for dealing with the scarcity is the solution to dealing with the water crisis. Marching forward as a unified country and as a unified world, we can focus on a solution to this looming crisis without conflict.

Founded in 1979 to address the most severe form of malnutrition-acute malnutrition-Action Against Hunger works in over 40 countries to save lives through therapeutic feeding, access to clean water and safe sanitation practices, and expertise to develop sustainable food production.

About Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF), an international relief and development organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and families, provides sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger. For nearly three decades, ACF has pursued its vision of a world without hunger by combating hunger in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity.

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Action Against Hunger - USA

James L. Phelan
Senior External Relations Officer, ACF-USA
Contact James Phelan
Direct: 212-967-7800 x108
Cell: 646-265-7796