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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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Rates of Malnutrition Soar in Liberia as Action Against Hunger Expands Programs
ACF calls attention to the potential nutritional crisis in Liberia where malnutrition rates recently surged by as much as 75% among children.
July 17, 2003

JULY 18, 2003Despite the halt in fighting in the capital Monrovia, civilians remain trapped in a city of chaos. The humanitarian situation is deteriorating further each day in Monrovia while the continuous fighting in other regions of the country threatens to re-ignite on the outskirts of the capital at any moment.

Action Against Hunger has opened a second therapeutic feeding center in the Mamba Point area, following the opening of a first center in Sinkor in June-both are located in the city of Monrovia. The organization is currently caring for 200 severely malnourished children. In addition, supplementary food is being distributed to 1100 moderately malnourished children from four sites. Many of these children are living in camps at the periphery of Monrovia where around 25,000 displaced people are living in alarming condition.

For several months, our teams have witnessed a dramatic deterioration in the nutritional situation of the civilian population. Already between March and May the percentage of malnourished children recorded in the camps had increased by 75%. By mid-June, another evaluation in Monrovia of 2142 children revealed that 858 were malnourished.

At the same time, Action Against Hunger is preparing to increase its activities in the provision of safe drinking water in the capital, particularly in certain buildings in the city center where there is no access to water and which have been identified as priority areas. Executive Director of Action Against Hunger - France, Benoît Miribel, will be in Monrovia from Saturday 19 to Tuesday 22 July, and will be available for interviews in English.

Liberian Capital in Chaos - Civilian Population Trapped in Fierce Fighting.
UPDATED JULY 24, 2003

Violent shelling in the Mamba point area, in the heart of Monrovia, has caused 100 deaths, with hundreds of people injured.

Faced with the political inaction of the international community, the Monrovian population is losing hope. It is plain to see that a humanitarian catastrophe has been unfolding over the last four days, but is being met by general indifference.

'Due to the violence of the fighting, the Monrovian inhabitants are hiding away at home, surviving on the little they still have there. The situation is even more disastrous for displaced people, who have already lost everything and have arrived in the capital with only the clothes they were wearing. The situation for the Monrovian population is agonising - no food, no water, no access to medical care, especially those who have been injured in the ongoing fighting,' says Frederic Bardou, Action Against Hunger Head of Programme from the capital.

Action Against Hunger protests against this general indifference and condemns the absence of concrete and immediate measures by the international community to protect the civilian population.

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
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