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How We Fight Hunger
Food
With proper nutrition early in life, children can grow, develop and thrive to their full potential.
Education
Children around the world are given the educational materials needed for success in the classroom with the help of corporate partners and educators.
Disaster Response
When we work with community partners, we support our neighbors and work together towards recovery.
Poverty
Poverty leads to hunger — but if we work together, we can create a world where no child goes to bed hungry.
Health & Water
Through our programs, we promote healthy immune systems and enable children to develop through adolescence and into adulthood.
Livelihoods
Through our Village Savings and Loan programs, we hope families will be self-reliant, financially stable and able to support and strengthen their communities.
Child Sponsorship
For only $1.26 a day you can be a change-maker by providing food and access to life-changing programs for a child.
SPONSOR A CHILD
El Salvador
Feed the Children has been working in El Salvador since 1987 to provide hope and resources to those without life’s essentials.
Guatemala
Since 1994, Feed the Children in Guatemala has helped kids defeat hunger and create brighter futures for themselves, their families, and communities.
Honduras
In Honduras, Feed the Children works throughout 10 communities to stop the cycle of poverty.
Kenya
Feed the Children’s work in Kenya includes meeting both short- and long-term needs of communities in urban and rural areas throughout the country.
Malawi
With our largest program footprint, our dedicated team reaches more than 800 communities throughout Malawi to help create a world where no child goes to bed hungry.
Philippines
As our oldest country program, Feed the Children has been working in the Philippines since 1984 and goes beyond just providing meals to building community self-reliance.
Tanzania
In Tanzania, Feed the Children works with more than 35,000 children to empower them and their communities to reverse malnutrition and poverty.
Uganda
Feed the Children helps children in Northern Uganda realize their full potential and find hope for their future.
Hear the Stories
Our work helps families in the United States, and in 8 countries around the world. The personal connections created in the course of our work are the heart and soul of what we do. Click below to read stories from our donors, volunteers, beneficiaries, and partners.
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Our Work in America
In the land of plenty, millions of boys and girls are going to bed hungry. More than 15 million households face not having enough food for everyone in the family. It will take all of us working together to defeat childhood hunger.
In the USA