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On March 8, The Hunger Project joins billions of people around the world to celebrate International Women’s Day to honor women around the world, reflect on progress made, call for change and celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.

It’s time to rethink the solution to ending hunger. We know that hand-outs don’t work. We know that top-down models of aid don’t work. We do know that ending hunger is possible within our generation and that world hunger has been reduced dramatically in the last 30...

In 2014, The Hunger Project-Ethiopia made many great accomplishments in the areas of education, health and community mobilization. They expanded their education programs to encompass more than 6,500 adult learners and are planning on expanding their nursery school...

President and CEO of The Hunger Project, Åsa Skogström Feldt, was selected as one of 21 spokespeople to address the Interactive Session of the General Assembly on the Elements of the Political Declaration as part of the intergovernmental negotiations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

The Hunger Project-Ghana improved farming education and expanded local epicenters to include more education opportunities, sanitation facilities and health services in 2014.

A new report says that while there has been much progress made in reducing under-five child mortality rates over the past 15 years, a significant number of children--mostly poor and minorities--are not living long, productive lives. Published by Save the Children,...

On February 2nd and 3rd, The Hunger project along with hundreds of youth delegates, NGO representatives and other stakeholders convened to discuss the areas of accountability, youth participation, gender equality and global and regional processes at the UN’s annual...

2015 has been declared the Year of International Evaluation--a year to promote evaluation and evidence-based decision-making at international, regional, national, and local levels. The year of evaluation declared at the Third International Conference on National...

The National Postcode Lottery in the Netherlands, a lottery program that donates 50 percent of its proceeds to charities, announced yesterday a nearly €1.3 million three-year grant to The Hunger Project, to scale up its successful Moringa nutrition program in Benin to Uganda, Ethiopia and Malawi.

Above, President and CEO of the Hunger Project, Åsa Skogström Feldt, shows her support for gender equality.    We’ve talked about how 2015 is a monumental year. It’s one of the biggest opportunities we’ve ever had as a global community to impact the development...

"The year 2015 offers a unique opportunity for global leaders and people to end poverty, transform the world to better meet human needs and the necessities of economic transformation, while protecting our environment, ensuring peace and realizing human rights."  ...

Hunger is not inevitable. It is not too big of a problem to solve. In fact, it has improved dramatically in just the last 30 years. Indeed, according to international agencies like the World Bank and United Nations, ending extreme poverty and hunger by the year 2030...

2015 is a big year. This year, two United Nations summits will take place that can bend the course of history. These meetings will give world leaders the opportunity to raise the ambition for humanity and deliver bold agreements that tackle poverty, inequality and...

Our Executive Vice President, John Coonrod, gives his top 10 milestones of 2014 and what he sees coming in 2015.   Top 10 Milestones of 2014 Twenty-fourteen was an agonizing year for many – with Ebola as well as new and continuing violence in many parts of the...

2014 was an exciting, inspirational, challenging and fun year for The Hunger Project. Check out what you read the most, “liked” the most and watched the most on our social media channels in 2014.

On April 22, The Hunger Project will join the global community to celebrate Earth Day. We are issuing a world-wide call to action to address the effects of climate change.

Of the areas where The Hunger Project is working in Malawi and Mozambique, it is the Chikwawa District in Malawi that has been the most directly affected.

On March 22, we recognize World Water Day to raise awareness about water-related issues and call for equal access to life’s most critical resource. #WaterForAll

At a Bihar State Level Convention, elected women representatives and girls demand that government authorities pay attention to their rights as equal citizens in a democracy.

On March 8, 2019, The Hunger Project recognizes International Women’s Day, a day that calls on our global community to take innovative action for equality.

On this, the 70th Anniversary of the Declaration for Human Rights, we celebrate this milestone document and recognize it as a chance for the world to reaffirm a commitment to human rights.

At our Fall Gala weekend October 19-21, more than 300 Hunger Project activists, investors and staff joined together to stand FOR something. See photos, videos and highlights from the weekend.

The world’s most powerful change agents are committed young people who adapt faster and adopt fully. On October 11, celebrate the power the 600 million girls in the world for International Day of the Girl.

We are proud to announce that the Movement for Community-Led Development, launched by The Hunger Project in 2015, has merged with a complementary network of organizations called Locus.