The Hunger Project: Empowering Women and Men to End Their Own Hunger

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We believe in a world where every woman, man and child leads a healthy, fulfilling life of self-reliance and dignity.

Our Work

After attending a skills training, Rejeya of Bangladesh puts food on her family's table.

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2016: Welcome to the Post-2015 Era – a dramatically new policy environment for the work of ending hunger and poverty.

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Knowledge Center

Think ending world hunger is unachievable? Think again. Six things you should know now.

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Join us for our Annual Fall Gala in New York City on October 22 to honor the self-reliant communities of Africa!

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Promoting Self-reliance

Our Epicenter Strategy in Africa supports communities in acting as the agents of their own development, so they can continue to perpetuate, sustain and enhance the work begun in partnership with The Hunger Project.

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Empowering Women

We know that when women are empowered, families are healthier, more children go to school, incomes increase and lives improve.

Our Approach

Annual Fall Gala

Join us in New York on October 22 for our special event honoring the self-reliant communities of Africa!

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Strategic Solutions

Sustainable solutions to hunger, poverty, disease and inequality are possible through strategic programs.

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Knowledge is Power

The more you know about an issue, the more you can speak to it. The more you speak to it, the more people become involved. And the more people who are involved, the faster we have lasting change.

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World Food Day 2016: A Changing Climate and Food Security

On October 16, join The Hunger Project in celebrating World Food Day—a day to heighten public awareness about the interconnection of agriculture, food security and world hunger. This year’s theme is “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too

Two Epicenters in Malawi Achieve Targets for Self-Reliance

Champiti and Ligowe Epicenters in Malawi have now graduated to a phase of “sustainable self-reliance,” which means that these communities have demonstrated the confidence, capacity and skills to act as agents of their own development.

Girls’s Progress = Goals’ Progress: Celebrating International Day of the Girl Child

The achievement of gender equality is imperative for our future. The complete empowerment of women and girls is not only crucial to improving the lives of families and communities, but is also key to creating sustainable change. That’s why each year we celebrate International Day of the Girl Child on October 11, a day to join global efforts to ensure a world free of discrimination for girls.

The Hunger Project-Uganda and Her Choice Collaborate to End Child Marriage

The Hunger Project is excited to be part of Her Choice—an alliance of organizations that are working to halt child marriage in 11 countries, with the long-term goal of supporting the creation of child marriage-free communities in which girls and young women are free to decide if, when and whom to marry.

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World Food Day 2016: A Changing Climate and Food Security

Two Epicenters in Malawi Achieve Targets for Self-Reliance

Girls’s Progress = Goals’ Progress: Celebrating International Day of the Girl Child

The Hunger Project-Uganda and Her Choice Collaborate to End Child Marriage

Rethink What's Possible

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