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Created: Feb 21, 2008
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
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The Hunger Project is a strategic organization and global movement committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.
In Africa, Asia and Latin America, we empower local people to create lasting society-wide progress in health, education, nutrition and family incomes. We apply a two-prong strategy: mobilizing grassroots self-reliant action, and mobilizing local leadership to clear away obstacles to enable grassroots action to succeed.
Our highest priority is the empowerment of women. Women bear primary responsibility for family health, education and nutrition – yet, by tradition, culture and law they are denied the means, information and freedom of action to fulfill their responsibility. The Hunger Project is committed to transforming this condition.
Our Vision
The vision of a world free from hunger does not look like our present reality minus the problem of hunger.
Our vision of the future is not based on everyone achieving a Western-style, high-consumption lifestyle, which is environmentally unsustainable even for the one billion people who now live it. Nor does it permit one-fifth of the human family to continue to live in abject poverty.
The Hunger Project is committed to transcending this polarity — to creating a future that rejects the inevitability of hunger and recognizes the limitations of a consumerist society.
Achieving the sustainable end of hunger means nothing less than creating a new future for all humanity, a future where:
--every day, every person has enough of the right food to be healthy and productive;
--babies are born healthy and strong, and girl babies are prized as much as boy babies;
--children stay alive, so parents can have smaller families;
--women and girls are full partners in society;
--people have control over their own lives and destinies, and all individuals have a chance to contribute;
--the values of honoring human beings and nature flourish.
In Africa, Asia and Latin America, we empower local people to create lasting society-wide progress in health, education, nutrition and family incomes. We apply a two-prong strategy: mobilizing grassroots self-reliant action, and mobilizing local leadership to clear away obstacles to enable grassroots action to succeed.
Our highest priority is the empowerment of women. Women bear primary responsibility for family health, education and nutrition – yet, by tradition, culture and law they are denied the means, information and freedom of action to fulfill their responsibility. The Hunger Project is committed to transforming this condition.
Our Vision
The vision of a world free from hunger does not look like our present reality minus the problem of hunger.
Our vision of the future is not based on everyone achieving a Western-style, high-consumption lifestyle, which is environmentally unsustainable even for the one billion people who now live it. Nor does it permit one-fifth of the human family to continue to live in abject poverty.
The Hunger Project is committed to transcending this polarity — to creating a future that rejects the inevitability of hunger and recognizes the limitations of a consumerist society.
Achieving the sustainable end of hunger means nothing less than creating a new future for all humanity, a future where:
--every day, every person has enough of the right food to be healthy and productive;
--babies are born healthy and strong, and girl babies are prized as much as boy babies;
--children stay alive, so parents can have smaller families;
--women and girls are full partners in society;
--people have control over their own lives and destinies, and all individuals have a chance to contribute;
--the values of honoring human beings and nature flourish.
