FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC
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Mission Statement
Food for the Hungry helps some of the world's most vulnerable people, who live in some of the world's hardest places, pull themselves out of poverty through sustainable development programs. Food for the Hungry enters a community with a plan to exit, listens to churches, leaders and families describe the issues they face, helps them develop a plan to end extreme poverty in their community, then works alongside them to equip families to better care for themselves and each other.
About This Cause
Food for the Hungry was founded in 1971 by Dr. Larry Ward on the premise that the hungry “die one at a time, therefore they can be saved one at a time.” He traveled wherever the needs were greatest, paying most of his expenses himself until Food for the Hungry grew from a one-man mission to an international relief organization. Food for the Hungry (FH) continued to work with people affected by disasters throughout the seventies and early eighties. FH helped refugees in Bangladesh, earthquake victims in Managua and Nicaragua, famine victims in Somalia and Africa’s Sahel (the border between the Sahara Desert and the fertile Sudan region), earthquake victims in Guatemala and Romania, and Cambodian refugees. As the emergency needs subsided in many of these countries, FH saw a need to establish long-term development programs to continue moving people out of hunger and poverty. Food for the Hungry seeks to walk with churches, leaders and families in overcoming all forms of human poverty by living in healthy relationship with God and His creation. Child-focused community transformation (CFCT) is the model FH uses to accomplish its work of providing innovative, biblically-rooted responses to hunger and poverty. All of our work is categorized into four sectors. • Livelihoods: Agriculture, livestock, natural resource management and economic development (savings groups) • Education: Primary education, secondary education, character building (children’s ministry) • Disaster risk reduction: Prevention mitigation, preparedness/response • Health and nutrition: Hygiene, nutrition, HIV, child survival, school health