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Help End Holiday Hunger

No child should go to bed hungry this holiday season. You can help end holiday hunger by providing food, essentials, and opportunities for the children and families who need them most.

What Is Holiday Hunger?

The holidays should be a time of shared family meals and full plates, but tonight, 1 in 4 children around the world will go hungry. There will be even more hungry children this winter as heating costs rise, food prices climb, and families face impossible choices.

Together, we can change that. No parent should have to choose whether to buy groceries, pay rent, or keep the heat on, and no child should have to go to bed hungry.

Feed the Children’s End Holiday Hunger campaign unites donors, corporate partners, child hunger charities, volunteers, and communities around one clear goal: making sure no child goes hungry during the season that’s meant for generosity and celebration.

How Can I Help End Holiday Hunger?

This holiday season, we have the opportunity to come together and help children survive and thrive. When you donate to help end child hunger, your gift provides food and essentials to children and families who need them. Click below to see how your gift can transform the holidays for families like Sylvie’s.

By joining the movement to end child hunger, you can help end holiday hunger for children everywhere.

Read their stories

Meet some of the children and families whose holidays have been transformed by people like you.

Sylvie smiling standing on a front porch of a house.

Sylvie, Leo, and Christian — United States

“We had to choose between food and paying the electric bill.” Sylvie faced empty cupboards after her husband, Leo, lost his job of two decades. Then a box from a Feed the Children Food & Essentials Hub brought tears, relief, and smiles.

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Pemphero in a school uniform walking outside in the day.

Pemphero — Malawi

At three years old, Pemphero ate a daily bowl of nutrient-rich porridge from Feed the Children at her local community childcare center. Today, at 15, she dreams of becoming a nurse, helping support her family, and paying her younger cousins’ school fees.

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Antony smiling in front of a wall outdoors.

Antony and Norma — Guatemala

Seven-year-old Antony walks a long road to school each day. With fruit at recess and school supplies in hand, this curious first-grader can keep reading, painting, and dreaming big. His mother, Norma, couldn’t be more proud — or relieved.

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Kassy eating at a table in a school cafeteria with another classmate.

Kassy — Philippines

“I am an island girl,” says 11-year-old Kassy. The sea makes no promises to her fisherman father. But with food and school supplies from people like you, she’s dreaming of teaching her island’s children to read, write, and dream.

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Thanks to donors and partners, every $1 you give provides $8 in food and essentials.

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What are the Facts About Child Hunger?

Child hunger remains a severe and growing challenge in the U.S. and around the world. Here’s what the data shows:

  • Around 181 million children worldwide under five years old are experiencing severe child food poverty. These children are up to 50% more likely to experience life-threatening malnutrition because of child hunger.
  • In the U.S., 14.1 million children lived in food-insecure households in 2024. That’s 1 in 5 children who can’t be sure where their next meal will come from.
  • 1 in 2 children in the U.S. live in economically vulnerable households — families that may earn above the federal poverty line but can’t always cover basic needs. These households often make impossible choices no family should have to face.
  • More than one million children in the U.S. stopped receiving SNAP benefits since 2025. For families who already experienced hunger and hardship, that means their budgets for food and other essentials have grown even tighter.
  • Around the world, the prevalence of undernourishment has returned to 2008-2009 levels, setting the world back 15 years. That’s a grim outlook for hungry children around the world whose access to food has been reduced even further.

How Does Feed the Children Help Families Long-Term?

Feed the Children provides relief from hunger today and helps build resilient households tomorrow, both in the U.S. and around the world.

Chronic hunger can have serious consequences for children’s healthy development, their ability to concentrate and learn in the classroom, as well as their potential to thrive as they grow up. During the holidays, the pain of hunger is often more severe when hungry children and families see others feasting and celebrating.

It doesn’t have to be that way. When families have the food and essentials they need to provide stable households, they can better support their children’s development and dreams.

We help families meet their needs through programs like our Resource Rallies and Food & Essentials Hubs, as well as our international school feeding and garden and agricultural training programs.

Together, we can help kids survive and thrive. Join our global movement, and let’s end holiday hunger for children everywhere.

End Holiday Hunger—Frequently Asked Questions

End Holiday Hunger is Feed the Children’s year-end fundraising campaign that runs through December 31. It’s a mission-driven effort designed to unite donors, corporate partners, child hunger charities, volunteers, and communities around one urgent goal: helping make sure no child goes hungry during the holidays.

Your donation supports children and families in the U.S. as well as in countries in Africa, Asia, and Central America.

Feed the Children is a global movement working to end child hunger in the U.S. and around the world. Alongside communities, we provide food, essentials, and opportunities for children and families who need them most. We help families meet their needs for food today as well as build more sustainable futures so their children can thrive.

Thanks to the generosity of our corporate partners, every $1 you give provides $8 in food and essentials for children and families who need them most.

Child food poverty describes a severe lack of access to nutritious food during the critical early years of a child’s life. Globally, 1 in 4 children under five years old lives in severe child food poverty, putting their growth and development at serious risk because of child hunger.

You can donate to Feed the Children’s End Holiday Hunger campaign directly through this page using the donate button. Every $1 you give provides $8 in food and essentials for children and families who need them most.

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Join Our Global Movement to End Holiday Hunger

No child deserves to go hungry, and parents facing hardship shouldn’t have to choose between buying enough food, paying rent or other bills, or keeping a warm home for their family.

This holiday season, you can make an important difference for children and families. When you donate to help end child hunger, your generosity brings us one step closer to creating a world where no child goes to bed hungry.

Join our global movement and donate today. Let’s end holiday hunger.