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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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Charity: Water Partners with ACF to Deliver Clean Water
ACF launches partnership with Charity:Water to provide clean water in the D.R. Congo
April 8, 2008
New York, NY — The international humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) is pleased to announce a formal partnership with the New York-based nonprofit Charity: Water to rehabilitate a water distribution network in Fizi territory, South Kivu Province, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Action Against Hunger’s partnership with Charity:Water aims to build local capacity for this community of 7,000. The $87,000 grant from Charity:Water includes training for 21 community-based Water Committees to oversee infrastructure maintenance and hygiene education—essential components for the successful delivery of clean drinking water and proper sanitation.

Through its community-centered approach, Action Against Hunger builds local capacity and harnesses a population’s participation, sense of ownership, energy and resources. By organizing and training community-based water committees, Action Against Hunger ensures local commitment to managing and maintaining the systems we rehabilitate and install. Access to clean water is essential, but only the cultivation of local know-how can ensure its sustainability.

Action Against Hunger’s integrated approach to hunger and malnutrition involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene. Partnerships with organizations like Charity:Water are key to ensuring the community health and well-being of vulnerable populations like those in South Kivu. Working in partnership with local communities, Charity:Water and Action Against Hunger are at the forefront of global efforts to bolster local capacity and provide context-specific solutions for populations needing water and sanitation improvements around the world.

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
Cell: 646-265-7796