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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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"Campaign to End Starvation in the Congo" Launches As Historic Election Nears
Action Against Hunger Sees Hope of Ending World's Most Neglected Humanitarian Crisis
July 28, 2006
New York, NY — Action Against Hunger, a world leader in the fight against hunger, is launching a "Campaign to End Starvation in the Congo" on the eve of the Democratic Republic of Congo's first multiparty elections in more than 40 years. Action Against Hunger hopes the election will herald a new era of peace and stability in a country emerging from a decade-long civil war, where 1,200 people continue to die every day in what has been called the "Most Neglected Humanitarian Crisis" on earth.

“The Congolese are a strong people and have a beautiful, fertile country with many natural resources,” said Cathy Skoula, Executive Director of Action Against Hunger.“The good news is that this long war was not over ethnic or religious hatred—so coordinated relief can build a sustainable economy. The bad news is that this nation of 60 million has been destroyed by the war, leaving no roads, four million dead, three million displaced, and tens of millions malnourished. The ballot alone will not bring bread to the people of the Congo. To rebuild this country, millions need both a hand up from starvation’s door and the economic tools to feed themselves in the future. This is why international humanitarian relief is more important now than ever.”

Action Against Hunger has been active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) throughout the chaos and war of the past decade. The organization operates some of the most effective therapeutic feeding centers in the world, where severely malnourished people, mostly children, are renewed to health in just 30 days. Beyond emergencies, their development programs in water and sanitation, food security, nutrition, and health care ensure that families regain their self-sufficiency over the long-term.

Action Against Hunger's 300-person field staffprovides direct assistance to some 400,000 Congolese in both eastern and western Congo, ensuring that needed relief reaches the most vulnerable populations.

Reached in the Congolese field office of Kivu, Thierry Laurent-Badin, Action Against Hunger’s Country Director in Eastern Congo, observed, “With greater stability, ACF will be able to expand its’ efforts to provide sustainable sources of food, clean water, sanitation and basic health care. The elections are only a first step to restoring the country’s stability, and the international community should not abandon this population afterwards. People are tired of war and want to rebuild their lives in peace, but they cannot do it alone.”

The Campaign to End Starvation in the Congo will significantly intensify and expand Action Against Hunger's decade-long work in the Congo, with the goal of doubling the number of people reached by its programs that provide therapeutic feeding, as well as sustainable access to food, clean water, sanitation and basic health care.

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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