Action Against Hunger

This week, Weekly Charity wants to highlight the work of … Action Against Hunger!

Action Against Hunger, founded in 1979 by several French scientists, writers and doctors, is an organization focused on feeding children and helping to provide communities with long-lasting solutions to hunger.

Initially providing assistance to refugees in Pakistan and Thailand (from Afghanistan and Cambodia, respectively) as well as communities in Uganda suffering from famine, Action Against Hunger now “runs life-saving programs in over 45 countries benefiting more than 13.6 million people each year” (1).

Scientists working at Action Against Hunger developed F100, a “therapeutic milk product used to treat severe acute malnutrition” (2). Use of this seems to “markedly reduce mortality of severely malnourished children” (3).

Is Weekly Charity officially working with Action Against Hunger? No, but it does encourage helping them out.

Now, for those of you who want to see some cold, hard, indisputable stats, here’s some data:

Charity Navigator gives Action Against Hunger: 4 out of 4 stars
Charity Watch gives them: An A rating (not an A+, nor an A-, but a straight-up “A”)
Action Against Hunger meets 20/20 of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s Standards for Charity Accountability.

Here’s the link to their United States website: http://www.actionagainsthunger.org

Here’s a link to their United Kingdom website: https://www.actionagainsthunger.org.uk

SOURCES

(1) Action Against Hunger’s United States website, under “Countries”, retrieved from “http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/countries”

(2) classyawards.org, in the article, “Action Against Hunger Drives Progress for Hunger & Poverty Relief” (by “Staff”), retrieved from “http://www.classyawards.org/…/action-against-hunger-drives…/“

(3) The National Center for Biotechnology Information, under a folder for PubMed.gov, in what seems to be an English translation of a French article, titled “[Definition and evaluation of therapeutic food for severely malnourished children in situations of humanitarian emergencies]”, retrieved from “http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10188315”