A global humanitarian organization originated in France – Action Against Hunger is mainly dedicated to ending malnutrition and world hunger. This organization specifically helps hungry and malnourished children and provides them a feasible solution to combat hunger and access to safe water. In 2014, the organization has worked in 49 separate countries across the world. More than 6,000 employees and volunteers help through this for almost 13.6 million needy people around the world. A group of French writer, scientists and doctors have established the organization. Alfred Kastler – a Nobel Prize winner was the first chairman here.
Initial starting:
The group started with providing assistance in Pakistan for the Afghan refugees. After that, they started working in several other countries such as in Ugandan communities, in Thailand for the Cambodian refugees and many more. To address more humanitarian concerns in Africa, the group has expanded its network through the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia etc during the period of 1980-1990.
The scientific committee of Action Against Hunger established a healing milk formula (F100) which is now used by most of the major humanitarian organizations while treating acute malnutrition. As a consequence, the mortality rate of acutely malnourished children specifically under 5 years has really been reduced to 5% from 25% across the world. After a few years, this therapeutic milk had been repackaged as a ready-to-use food like a power bar. They don’t need any type of refrigeration or preparation before using and easily can be used to treat malnutrition at your home.
At present, this international network has its headquarters in five different countries – The UK, the US, Canada, France and Spain. In these countries, their work mainly focused on four basic areas:
Nutrition
Food security
Water and sanitation
Advocacy
The approaches with different sectors of involvement:
Nutrition and health
Sanitation, water and maintaining hygiene
Livelihoods and food security
Emergency response
Why does it matter?
It is said that almost 800 million people sleep hungry every night and 1 among every three children is suffering from chronic undernutrition. These mainly happen to the middle-income or low-income countries. Near about half of the total child deaths happen due to undernutrition or malnutrition across the world. Although it is:
Predictable: We all know exactly when to expect acute malnutrition or undernutrition. Also, we know where to expect the scenario.
Preventable: We all know how to help a malnourished child to recover and how to help a child to stay healthy.
Treatable: A perfect nutrition program and therapeutic foods easily can help children to stay healthy. Millions of children can be saved either.
Action Against Hunger is a hunger-fighting organization who knows how to offer lifesaving treatments to malnourished and under nourished children
How Action Against Hunger raise their fund?
This organization is considered among the topmost non-profit organizations in the world. They perform their job ethically and efficiently. Hundreds of renowned organizations are constantly contributing to growing up the organization – Action Against Hunger.
A newly established, created in 1999, SFAM is a popular company who are willing to combine their sturdy growth with unity. As a consequence, the newly-formed company already has contributed almost 300,000 Euros to the Action Against Hunger Organization over the past 3 years. This is one of the topmost insurance brokers promoting solutions to design, develop, distribute and manage the insurance contracts, European market and some additional services through a particular distribution network. The passion and the ambition have made it a leader in this particular activity sector which led them to grab the “Happy at Work” award in 2017 which reflects the satisfaction and the dedication of their employees towards the company.
A particular portion of their donation amount was destined to the hunger-fighting organization’s Social and Nutrition Support Program in Urban surroundings.