About

A girl holds her smiling little sister.
Olivia Acland
Action Against Hunger, DRC
A mother carries her two children over a muddy road.

Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger.

A mother carries her two children over a muddy road.
Child and mother in Mali
Elisabeth measures her daughter's nutrition status using a simple tool called the Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) band

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Opportunity begins where hunger ends

For more than 40 years, we have led the global movement to end hunger, for everyone, for good.

An Action Against Hunger Aid Worker holds a child in his arms in Mali.
8,900+

Aid Workers Dedicated to Saving Lives & Helping to End Hunger Around the World

Rosina Chenangat, 38, is the leader of the kitchen garden which is an initiative of the Mother-to-Mother support group in Kapkitony Village in West Pokot, Kenya.
28M

People Reached Every Year with Our Proven Hunger Programs

Nadia nurses her youngest child, 2 months old, at home in Duykondi Province, Afghanistan. Action Against Hunger works in this area to manage feeding programs and provide mobile health and nutrition support.
$0.91

Of Every Dollar Donated Goes to Program Activities to Prevent and and Treat Hunger

We save lives and build resilient communities

We save the lives of children and their families. We are there for them before and after disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and for whole communities to prosper. We constantly search for more effective solutions, while sharing our knowledge and expertise with the world. We push for long-term change.

A Charity You Can Trust

We take pride in our financial efficiency, our program effectiveness, and our organizational health, leadership, and stability.

We’re efficient: Action Against Hunger saves lives around the world, with minimal fundraising and administrative costs: $0.91 of every dollar donated goes directly to our field programs.

We’re trusted and top-rated: We have earned top ratings from the most trusted, independent charity evaluators in the United States for our efficient operations and sound financial management.

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Together, We Can End Hunger

We save the lives of children and their families. We will never give up. Until the world is free from hunger.

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Where we work

Action Against Hunger reaches 28 million people a year across 55 countries.

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