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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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Earthquake in Iran Action Against Hunger mobilizes to assist victims in the affected villages
After evaluating the needs of the 40 villages damaged by yesterday's earthquake, Action Against Hunger is supplying drinking water to those affected.
February 23, 2005

Within hours of the early morning earthquake in Iran on February 22, relief teams from Action Against Hunger arrived in the affected area to evaluate the damage and the urgent needs of the population. They have verified that the most urgent needs are water, tents, blankets, clothes and heaters.

An estimated 30,000 people from 40 villageshave been seriously affected by the earthquake, and 451 families have lost everything. Nine villages remain without water in an impoverished area where the population, vulnerable to malnutrition even before the earthquake struck, works most often in coal mining. According to estimates by the Action Against Hunger teams, the urban area of Zarand has not been seriously affected by the earthquake. Rather, the rural areas have suffered the worst consequences.

Action Against Hunger today will begin supplying drinking water to the population in the nine areas that lack access to clean water. Furthermore, the non-governmental, non-profit, non-religious organization plans to transport from its mission in water and drainage equipment, emergency toilets, tablets to purify drinking water, tents and blankets.

Access to the affected areas continues to be very difficult due to heavy rains, overflowing rivers, blocked roads and landslides.

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
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