It starts with donated food – generously provided by partners who share a heart for the hungry. They ensure that the nutritious meals are packed and boxed, ready to be sent.
Your gift helps cover the critical costs of getting that food to where it’s needed most, to make sure it doesn’t sit in a warehouse.
Your gift helps get the food to where it is needed most.
Meals are collected, shipped, trucked and delivered – around the world, arriving as life-saving nourishment for children. It is the best, and sometimes only, meal they receive each day.
What’s in the meal?
The meal includes rice (carbohydrates for energy), soy (plant-based protein to support muscles, bones and immunity), dehydrated vegetables (for fibre, vitamins and minerals to assist digestion and health) and added vitamins and minerals. Children aged 5 to 10 are in a key stage of growth. Their bodies and brains are developing fast and they need the right nutrients to stay healthy, active and focused. This meal supports those needs in a simple, powerful way.
World Hunger Facts
23 million children
of primary school age are hungry in Africa. There are 66 million in the developing world.
3.1 million deaths
every year, are caused by poor nutrition in children under five years old.
We have enough food… It’s just in the wrong place
And it’s not a lack of food – every year we throw so much away that we could feed 2 billion people with it.
➡ Worldwide hunger is a devasting problem: one in eleven people do not have enough food to eat. In Africa it is one in five. An alarming number of people continue to face food insecurity and malnutrition. Global hunger levels have plateaued for three consecutive years, with between 713 and 757 million people undernourished in 2023 — approximately 152 million more than in 2019.
The causes of hunger are complex. The effects are tragic. But the solution is simple. $6 will feed a child for a month!