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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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Gaza Emergency
Humanitarian Situation Deteriorates as Economy Collapses
July 25, 2006
Madrid, Spain — Although temporary opening of Karni brought minimal supplies to markets, the population does not have enough money left to pay for food. Prices are increasing rapidly and this, combined with dwindling household incomes and a dire conflict-related economic collapse, means that people are having to survive on less food and of inferior quality.

“Fishermen's boats stay in harbors, Palestinians working in Israel cannot cross checkpoints, people employed by the Palestinian Authority have not received their salary for months, traders have nothing to trade with and construction has halted due to lack of materials. Therefore people cannot buy enough food and, in turn, supplies cannot be stored," says Hosam Almadhoun, Action Against Hunger's Head of Base in Gaza.

Frederic Roberts, in charge of Action Against Hunger's programs in the Palestinian Territories, comments: "The situation is absurd–there are vegetables in the markets, rotting in the sun because they cannot be exported and people cannot buy them."

According to data from UNICEF, 70% of the population no longer consumes the necessary quantity of daily nutrients and access to water is difficult. According to Pablo Alcade, Action Against Hunger's emergency coordinator, areas close to the Israeli border are most affected: "We have come across water networks and irrigated land that were completely destroyed in an area where humanitarian access is difficult and from where many Palestinians are fleeing to take refuge in schools." Action Against Hunger's water and sanitation programs will directly focus on assisting this population in the north and northeastern of the Gaza Strip.

Action Against Hunger is also carrying out an assessment in the South of Lebanon to implement an emergency program.

PRESS CALL: The Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) is organizing a press conference in Jerusalem on 27th July, to draw attention to the humanitarian situation. Action Against Hunger will be there.
PLACE: Hotel Ambassador (Jerusalem)–TIME: 13:00 (local time).

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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