BY BRYAN PRIDE AND CHELSIE AZEVEDO Introduction In 1978, the United Nations General Assembly announced that enough food was being produced to feed the world. Since that year, food production has...
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BY BRYAN PRIDE AND CHELSIE AZEVEDO Introduction In 1978, the United Nations General Assembly announced that enough food was being produced to feed the world. Since that year, food production has...
For the last five years, Rise Against Hunger has worked with our partner ADRA International to address food insecurity in Gokwe North, Zimbabwe. What began as emergency school feeding evolved into a...
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Editor's Note: At Rise Against Hunger, we support communities by addressing food and nutrition security. Wondering what the difference is? In recognition of March being National Nutrition Month,...
Every day, we bear witness to suffering and resilience. In Yemen, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Burkina Faso, DRC, Honduras, Venezuela, Nigeria, Haiti, CAR, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Sudan and beyond...
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Ending world hunger won't be achieved through only one solution. The causes of food insecurity are multi-faceted, and the solutions must be as well. Through our Pathways to End Hunger, Rise Against...
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In recent weeks, we've become increasingly concerned after seeing multiple reports about COVID-19's potential to exacerbate already existing food insecurity. Countries around the world are facing the...
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Did you know that 820 million people around the world do not have the food they need to live healthy, active lives? At Rise Against Hunger, we’re on a journey to create a hunger-free world by 2030...
By Kevin Magee Progress is built on partnership. As is said in the old African proverb, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This is the spirit of the relationship...
By distributing meals around the globe, Rise Against Hunger meets the immediate needs of those facing hunger. But, what happens next? Over the past few years, Rise Against Hunger has increased its...
Shared in Blog, Empowering Communities on July 11, 2019 by Maggie Luckadoo In the Republic of Mali, more than 65% of the population lives in rural areas, relying on agriculture for their livelihoods...
For 26-year-old Elen, a mother of four living in a rural mountain community in Iloilo, Philippines, providing basic needs for her family has been a challenge that she has persevered to overcome. ...
This week, Rise Against Hunger kicked off an exciting new Empowering Communities project, Leveraging Agriculture to Unite Communities and Hospitals (LAUNCH), alongside our partner Development in...
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by Maddie Laing Located about 1,000 miles from the capital of Niger in Sub-Saharan Africa is a small town known as Maine-Soroa (Maine). In the 1960s, two Peace Corps volunteers, Bill and Barbara...
by Maggie Luckadoo In the wake of Cyclone Idai, which has left massive destruction in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, Rise Against Hunger is responding. Our Emergency Relief team has connected Rise...
by Amal Devaraj Kerala is the southern part of India. In the mid of August 2018, major areas in Kerala witnessed heavy rainfall continuously for more than a week. All the lakes, rivers and other...
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by Jessica Hubacher On International Day of Peace, we at Rise Against Hunger reflect on the impact that conflict and forced migration can have on food security in communities around the world and...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB) APRIL 11, 2018 Ending hunger in this lifetime is possible, and Rise Against Hunger’s Chief Impact Officer, Edna Ogwangi, traveled to Haiti last month to show the world how a...
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185 schools 50,680+ children fed Quick Facts Swaziland: 28% of youths have not completed primary school Madagascar: 19% of primary school-age youths are out of school Zimbabwe: e pupil to teacher...
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By Silvia Roscot Albertina eats bread with tea every morning for pequeno almoço, Portuguese for breakfast, then walks an hour to school. Occasionally, she skips breakfast and forages fruits on the...
By Lance Morrison About three months ago, a deadly duo of flash floods and mudslides, triggered by unseasonal non-stop rain, rushed through Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. More than 5,900...