Category: Hunger Relief

Africa, Blog, Charity, child health, Children, featured, Food, Food Security, Hunger Relief, malnutrition

Why 20 Million People Are on the Brink of Starvation and How You Can Help

It’s difficult to fathom that 20 million people are on the brink of starvation in Sub-Sharan Africa and the Middle East, but the statistic is true. In fact, the region is facing the largest humanitarian crisis in over seventy years and if no help is provided 1.4 million children are at risk of death. Not only is weather to blame for the lack of crops, … Continue reading Why 20 Million People Are on the Brink of Starvation and How You Can Help

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Africa, Asia, Blog, Clean Water and Sanitation, Education, FGM, Food, Food Security, Frontline Health Workers, Hunger Relief, Maternal Health, newborn health, Poverty, Vaccines, Water, Women and Girls

Our Top 10 Recommended NGO Videos of 2014

Effective video making is a powerful form of storytelling. Videos, when done well, get to the heart of the matter quickly and leave people wanting to know more, do more, and donate more. These videos encompass all of those things and also made us want to delve more into not only their messages, but also spread the word. Here are our top 10 NGO video … Continue reading Our Top 10 Recommended NGO Videos of 2014

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Africa, Agriculture, Blog, Children, Clean Water and Sanitation, Food Security, Hunger Relief

Logistics Team Visits South Sudan to Assess Road Conditions Amid Looming Famine

Last month, a United Nations team travelled to Western Equitoria,  Central Equatoria, and Western Bahr El Ghazal in South Sudan to assess road conditions, an important task when famine looms in a region that is mostly agrarian. Without passable roads it is impossible for lifesaving, critical health supplies, health workers, aid agencies,  and most importantly food to reach remote areas that are cut off from main city … Continue reading Logistics Team Visits South Sudan to Assess Road Conditions Amid Looming Famine

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Africa, Blog, Fair Trade, Food, Food Security, Hunger Relief

Can Africa Truly Feed Itself and the World?

Can Africa truly feed itself and the world?  If you ask former UN Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kofi Annan, the answer is a resounding yes. In fact, during his tenure as the head of the United Nations Annan says in the latest round of FutureFood 2050‘s interviews that he made food security in Africa one of his greatest priorities. “I realized early on that the … Continue reading Can Africa Truly Feed Itself and the World?

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Blog, Food Security, Hunger Relief

New Campaign Educates About Food Consumption, Waste

As children, most of us heard our mothers tell us to clean our plates because children around the world aren’t as fortunate to have a full plate of dinner. And, of course, mothers around the world are right. Now as moms ourselves how much food do you waste per week? Can you save more food? About one-third of all food produced, worth around US$1 trillion, … Continue reading New Campaign Educates About Food Consumption, Waste

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Africa, Blog, Food Security, Hunger Relief, World Food Programme

Southern African Countries Face Hunger Threat

It sounds seemingly impossible, but there is yet another area of Africa that is under threat of a food shortage due to erratic rains during the growing season. While the Sahel is still experiencing food shortages, southern Africa is now joining ranks with the northwestern part of the continent. According to the World Food Programme, 3.5 million people are living in drought-hit areas in Malawi, … Continue reading Southern African Countries Face Hunger Threat

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Blog, Food Security, Hunger Relief, Women and Girls

What You Can Do to Celebrate World Food Day

Global food instability is a complex issue. Factors such as poverty, food prices, climate change, food distribution, smallholder farmers, women farmers, crude oil, fertilizers, plant varieties, pest management, irrigation, and even armed conflicts affect people’s access to food. That is why even in 2012 one billion people still go to bed hungry every night. That is one in every seven people according to Oxfam. Untangling … Continue reading What You Can Do to Celebrate World Food Day

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Blog, Children, Education, Environment and Climate, Hunger Relief, Poverty

DoSomething.org’s The Hunt: 11 Days of Doing

WHAT: The Hunt: 11 Days of Doing   WHERE: www.dosomething.org/hunt THE CONVERSATION: #TheHuntisOn DoSomething.org, the nation’s largest organization for teens and social change, has partnered with Lenovo, the world’s second largest PC maker who helped found the campaign last year, and Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, to launch “The Hunt: 11 Days of Doing.” Every day at 11:11 AM EST Do Something releases the day’s current challenge via email, text, and … Continue reading DoSomething.org’s The Hunt: 11 Days of Doing

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Blog, Book Reviews, Hunger Relief

[Book Review] The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow

The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change by Roger Thurow My rating: 5 of 5 stars One does not have to be a wonk to understand the intricacies of global hunger as many might suspect. Roger Thurow, a senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former Wall … Continue reading [Book Review] The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow

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