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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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After month-long insurgency, Congolese return to calm but barren villages
Action Against Hunger seeks to alleviate growing nutritional emergency
July 21, 2004
Bukavu, D.R. Congo — Refugees from the eastern province of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo returned to their homes this week only to find that government and rebel troops had stolen their belongings, pilfered or destroyed at least sixty percent of the harvested crops, and looted a number of hospitals and therapeutic feeding centers run by Action Against Hunger (ACF), according to an evaluation conducted by the international humanitarian organization.

Most residents of the South Kivu province often have only one meal a day, down from two or three, and flour now costs five times what it did before a recent insurgency in the area. The ACF therapeutic feeding centers were looted of supplies, including medicines, food and furniture.

It is estimated that between 70,000 and 80,000 inhabitants between Bwegera and Kamanyola fled their homes in June after rebel forces led by Col. Jules Mutebusi seized the town of Bukavu. Both rebel and government forces are said to have left houses absolutely and systematically plundered, taking cooking utensils, livestock, and household objects, as well as from the remaining unharvested crops, according to a report by ACF.

“The displacement of people, loss of belongings, food insecurity and a growing cholera epidemic are suspected to bring about health and nutritional weaknesses for months to come,” ACF security officer Samuel Cadassou said.

In response to the growing crisis, ACF plans to provide medicines and equipment to health and feeding centers, as well as guarantee free medical care for returning refugees for at least three months. It also is trying to track population movements and help reunite unaccompanied children with their families.

Present in the DR Congo since the beginning of the war, Action Against Hunger is carrying out programs of nutrition, water/sanitation, health, and food security, bringing assistance to over 500,000 people.

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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