Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger

Abbreviation	ACF
Formation	1979 (1979)
Type	Non-profit
Legal status	501(c)(3)
Purpose	To end child hunger.
Headquarters	New York, USA; Montreal, Canada; London, UK; Paris, France; Madrid, Spain
Region served	Some 40 countries around the world
Budget	$34,500,000 in 2008
Website	http://www.ActionAgainstHunger.org

Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF) is an international relief and development organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and families while seeking long-term, sustainable solutions to hunger. Recognized as a world leader in the fight against hunger and malnutrition, Action Against Hunger specializes in responding to emergency situations of war, conflict, and natural disaster. Their innovative programs in nutrition, water and sanitation, food security, health care, and advocacy reach more than 5 million people in over 40 countries, helping vulnerable populations regain their self-sufficiency.

Action Against Hunger’s involvement typically begins with emergency relief in response to a crisis, but relief is always reinforced by longer term programs enabling victims to regain their autonomy and the means to live independent of external aid. In the short term, Action Against Hunger addresses hunger and malnutrition through feeding centers, food and supply distributions and by providing water and sanitation facilities in emergency situations. In the long term, ACF provides training in nutrition, water and sanitation, food security, and health care to ensure self-sufficiency and to assist communities in rebuilding. ACF relies on the skills of 4000+ experts and staff to develop programs that are well adapted to the needs of its beneficiaries.

Programs

Nutrition Programs

Every year, some 19 million children across the world suffer from severe acute malnutrition, and as many as 5 million of them die from hunger-related causes. Countless others will suffer permanent physical damage, including stunted growth and developmental delays.

Action Against Hunger's nutrition programs treat and prevent acute malnutrition in those most vulnerable, including young children and women who are pregnant or nursing. The programs are launched most often during times of crisis (when an earthquake devastates a city, when civil war tears apart a country, when drought leads to famine, or when families flee violence only to confront hunger). The contexts for their programs can be as varied as the crises: from rural mountain villages, to ethnically divided cities, to the confines of overcrowded relocation camps for internally displaced peoples.

Based on the unique demands of each situation, its context, and the local culture, Action Against Hunger designs a nutrition program that will best meet the needs of the target population. The core components of this program include an evaluation of the community’s nutritional needs, the treatment and prevention of malnutrition, and technical training for the local and national staff in charge of nutrition and public health. The approach is guided by a strategy of flexible response to conditions that can rapidly change. As soon as conditions allow, ACF works to integrate the programs into existing public health structures to ensure the future nutritional well-being of the community.

Evaluation of Nutritional Needs

Understanding the root causes of a specific outbreak of malnutrition is essential to the design and implementation of an effective program. Action Against Hunger draws on the full range of its technical expertise (in nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, and health) to conduct an analysis of the situation. In addition to baseline data on core nutritional indicators, the assessment includes information on the culture, its infrastructure, and the local geography. The resulting evaluation helps to determine the number and placement of feeding centers required for an effective response to the crisis.

Treatment & Prevention of Acute Malnutrition

Action Against Hunger has developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory board. Therapeutic Feeding Centers provide round-theclock care for those most severely affected by acute malnutrition (infants, young children, pregnant women, and nursing mothers). Without proper treatment, these women and children would face imminent death, but with treatment, the vast majority return to their families after just 30 days.

To prevent a relapse in those recently discharged from Therapeutic Feeding Centers, and to assist those who suffer from acute malnutrition but require less intensive care, Supplementary Feeding Centers provide treatment on a weekly basis. Action Against Hunger's staff carefully monitor the nutritional health of their beneficiaries, and dispense therapeutically formulated food that can be consumed without special preparation and easily transported to remote locations. Often mobile, these centers also help those who cannot reach the network of Therapeutic Feeding Centers. In addition to the medical and nutritional care, Action Against Hunger organizes activities at both types of feeding centers to encourage social interaction, strengthen family cohesion, and educate caregivers on hygiene and nutrition.

Technical Training & Support for Local Staff

Even at the outbreak of a crisis, when all efforts are focused on providing treatment and saving lives, ACF is also helping to strengthen and rebuild the health infrastructure. Action Against Hunger does this from the outset by fielding a team that overwhelming consists of local staff members. As soon as the situation stabilizes, they begin to adapt their programs so they can integrate into a country’s existing public health system. When the crisis subsides and Action Against Hunger can eventually depart, the local staff remain to continue working on behalf of their community’s nutritional health.

Water and Sanitation Programs

That 2.6 billion people around the world are forced to defecate in plastic bags, buckets, open pits, agricultural fields, and public areas in their communities should generate a collective outcry for immediate, concerted efforts to expand access to improved sanitation facilities. — The UN Millennium Project Task Force Report on Water and Sanitation: Health, Dignity, and Development: What Will it Take?

Action Against Hunger’s integrated approach to hunger and malnutrition involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene.

A community’s health and well-being require a lasting supply of clean water and the knowledge of how to use and care for it properly. Unfortunately, an estimated 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water while a staggering 2.6 billion (42% of humanity) lack basic sanitation. This results in some 2.2 million deaths each year, mostly among children (deaths that are perfectly preventable through proven, cost-effective measures).

Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity. They truck water into affected communities during emergencies, decontaminate wells and install hand-pumps. Employing sophisticated geophysics, they are able to locate water resources and tap aquifers. They protect natural springs and pipe water into villages and health centers and they rehabilitate damaged infrastructure to ensure access to adequate sources of clean water. Their ability to deliver clean water is central to their comprehensive solutions to hunger and malnutrition.

How They Provide Access to Safe Water

A primary concern of ACF projects is to facilitate the provision of, and access to, safe drinking water. They do this by:

• Trucking water during emergencies until permanent sources can be established
• Cleaning contaminated water sources
• Installing water storage tanks and above-ground reservoirs
• Drilling new wells (that require buckets) and boreholes (that require pumps)
• Tapping and preserving springs
• Improving and installing local sanitation systems, including drainage networks and latrines
• Improving and installing irrigation systems
• Creating hygienic bathing facilities where infrastructure has been damaged by natural disaster or warfare.
• Prioritizing Sanitation, Health, and Hygiene

Sanitation, health, and hygiene programs are of equal importance as entire communities can become ill if hygiene is neglected. Outbreaks of cholera and dysentery, for example, frequently attack communities that drink and wash with contaminated water (infectious diseases that lead to excessive diarrhea, dehydration, and complicate malnutrition). In response, Action Against Hunger builds latrines and bathhouses and introduces basic sanitation infrastructure to keep communities hygienic. Action Against Hunger’s lifesaving programs ensure that communities benefit from improvements in sanitation, health, and hygiene.

Sustainable Programs: Extending Lasting Solutions

Action Against Hunger's programs’ long-term benefits, however, would be hard to sustain without their commitment to community participation. Developing and extending water and sanitation services involves much more than quick technical fixes. To sustain water and sanitation improvements, a community-centered approach is central to building local capacity and harnessing a population’s participation, sense of ownership, energy and resources. By organizing and training community-based water committees, they ensure local commitment to managing and maintaining the systems they rehabilitate and install. In their campaign to vanquish hunger, clean water is as essential as food, but only the cultivation of local know-how can ensure its sustainability.

While the scale of global need is truly daunting, they know how to extend water and sanitation improvements, how to instill better hygiene practices, and how to teach populations to manage these resources themselves. Action Against Hunger’s programs alone reach 4 million people each year; reinforcing these efforts is one way to improve conditions for vulnerable communities around the world—populations whose lack of water leaves them vulnerable to daily indignities and appalling rates of death and debilitation.

Food Security Programs

Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for a healthy and active life. — World Food Summit 1996

Action Against Hunger's food security programs form a continuum with the work they do in nutrition. While their feeding centers restore individuals suffering from severe and acute malnutrition health to health, their food security programs help prevent future outbreaks. Unfortunately, over 800 million around the world struggle to survive without access to even the most basic, minimal sustenance. And this, in turn, results in the kind of malnutrition that can be fatal if left untreated.

From Emergency to Self-Sufficiency

Sometimes, the work of food security begins immediately after a natural disaster, when the infrastructure and food supply of an otherwise healthy community has been destroyed. In these instances, the organization's efforts include emergency distributions of food, cash, and other essential items to prevent outbreaks of severe malnutrition in the short-term, and to ensure that crops can be replanted and livestock replenished for the future. Sometimes, food security activities take place as a follow-up to the work of their Therapeutic and Supplementary Feeding Centers. By helping families regain self-sufficiency, ACF greatly reduces the likelihood that they’ll have to return to feeding centers again.

Supporting Livelihoods, Enhancing Coping Mechanisms

Unlike nutrition, where treatment is guided by standard protocols based on human nutritional requirements, food security must take into account a wide range of factors such as climate, geography, socio-economic systems, and political structures. As a result, the programs implemented are highly contextualized and must be tailored to meet the unique needs of each community and each crisis. In order to do this, ACF begins with a comprehensive evaluation of the situation and its underlying causes.

This analysis is conducted by a team with expertise in such areas as agricultural production and natural resource management, anthropology, socio-economics, geography, and veterinary science. In emergency situations, a quick assessment can be completed in as little as 3 days, but most often it can take up to between 3 and 4 months. The team conducts surveys, administers questionnaires, and meets directly with a cross-section of the affected community, including its leadership.

Community-Centered, Context-Specific

By actively involving the local population in both the research and analysis, Action Against Hunger identifies their existing methods for managing crises, which then helps them develop appropriate food security strategies. In some cases, there are good coping mechanisms in place that should be encouraged and reinforced; for example, a communal network of mutual support. In other cases, existing methods may have future negative consequences and should be discouraged; such as deforestation or the depletion of seed stocks.

In general, these strategies are designed to have a measurable impact within a timeframe that spans a full food cycle (typically between 6 and 12 months). And just as they begin by conducting an assessment of the needs, Action Against Hunger's work is not finished until they complete a final impact evaluation. This follow-up research helps the local community continue its efforts to rebuild, and it allows ACF to refine their methods for future crises.

Health Programs

A vicious circle exists between disease and malnutrition. A malnourished child is more vulnerable to diseases than a well-fed child. A sick child, weakened by illness, often becomes a victim of malnutrition. It is therefore necessary to address disease in order to eliminate hunger. ACF sets up mother and child health centers to provide immunization and pre/post-natal care. Their public health programs train medical staff, provide medicine, monitor and control epidemics, and rehabilitate clinics.

Additionally, when someone suffers from malnutrition, they face an increased risk of disease and illness. For malnourished infants and young children, this increased risk can often mean the difference between life and death. Similarly, those weakened by sickness can readily fall victim to malnutrition, which then leads to a spiraling decline in their condition. And when malnutrition and sickness coincide, otherwise easy to treat illnesses, like diarrhea, can suddenly turn fatal. In fact, malnutrition remains an underlying cause in 53% of all deaths among children under 5.

Disease & Malnutrition: A Self-Reinforcing Relationship

Recognizing the symbiotic relationship between malnutrition and sickness, Action Against Hunger also fights the diseases that accompany poor nutrition. Through the organization's efforts to fight acute moderate and severe malnutrition, they not only strive to save children from starvation, but also seek to restore them to health. When a child undergoes treatment at a feeding center, the organization administers medication to prevent the kinds of infection and illness that can be most devastating. The medications dispensed will vary depending on region, country, and national health protocols, but the most frequently administered three are Amoxicillin, an antibiotic effective against a wide spectrum of infections, Mebendazole, which kills most intestinal worms, and an anti-malarial drug.

Other health related activities include vaccination programs and vitamin A and iron supplementation for mothers and children, and instruction on how to foster health through good nutritional practices. In keeping with ACF's overall approach to humanitarian aid, they coordinate closely with the existing public health system to ensure that their work draws on and strengthens local expertise. In the aftermath of a crisis, Action Against Hunger can help restore the public health infrastructure by fielding mobile health clinics to areas affected by epidemic, by rehabilitating and restocking public health centers, and by training local medical personnel on such topics as vaccinations, prenatal health care, and methods for identifying the symptoms of disease & malnutrition.

Advocacy & Research Programs

Action Against Hunger raises awareness about hunger and seeks to alert the international community when human rights, especially the right to food, are violated. Their advocacy and public awareness efforts aim to effect institutional and cultural change to help create a world without hunger.

Humanitarian advocacy takes place at 3 levels:

• Program Level Advocacy: At the program level, advocacy is rooted in the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance, addressing barriers or threats to a population’s access to life-sustaining resources and services.
• Policy Level Advocacy: At the policy level, advocacy can bolster humanitarian values, secure or protect humanitarian space, improve policies and practices, and challenge or propose funding priorities.
• Public Opinion Advocacy: At the level of public opinion, advocacy aims to enlist public support, build constituencies, and shape popular opinion in support of changes to specific policies or legislation.

In practice, these contexts blur as advocacy efforts often take place at all levels simultaneously. To influence political actors, advocacy strategies can take many shapes but essentially involve the packaging and delivery of the charity's field expertise, analysis, and recommendations to the stakeholders in question—publicly or confidentially, depending on the sensitivity of the context.

Scientific Research

Research for the Most At-Risk

Scientific research at Action against Hunger tackles the program needs they confront in the field and the needs of the most at-risk while improving the tools and methodologies, and ensuring high-quality, sustainable programs. The organization's commitment to ongoing field research brings together several components:

• An International Scientific Committee
  • Action against Hunger’s International Scientific Committee embodies and guides their strategic approach to field research, helping the organization define priorities, validate programs, and connect with the latest scientific research.
• Quality Programs: External Assessments
  • Action Against Hunger regularly undertakes external assessments of their interventions based on program impact, coverage, coherence, relevance, sustainability, effectiveness and efficiency. They have also developed quality management procedures and an internal auditing system designed to streamline capabilities and optimize the resources they deploy in the field. The result is independent verification of their programs.
• Capitalizing on Field Research
  • The breadth of experience and wide-ranging expertise available within ACF’s International Network offers a unique opportunity to capitalize on a broad range of research initiatives, internal and external evaluations, and package and disseminate this information with a view to making our future programs better and helping other organizations improve their own program quality and reach.

Scientific research at Action against Hunger tackles the operational needs which arise in the field. It produces tools and methods to be used in highquality and sustainable actions. Research includes carryng out studies, capitalisation, dissemination and valorisation of know-how towards missions and local partners.

Real Impacts: Research for Humanitarian Outcomes

The impacts of Action Against Hunger's commitment to scientific research is of the utmost importance to the communities they serve. Here are several glimpses into their ongoing initiatives and the benefits derived from sound scientific investigation:

• Research: Expanding the Ready-to-Eat Revolution with New Nutritional Products
  • Huge strides were made some 13 years ago when Action Against Hunger piloted the first ever therapeutic milk formula used in the medical treatment of severe acute malnutrition. Prior to 1994, one in four children with severe acute malnutrition did not survive treatment.
• Research: Developing Therapeutic Nutritional Care for HIV-Affected Children
  • Huge strides were made some 13 years ago when Action Against Hunger piloted the first ever therapeutic milk formula used in the medical treatment of severe acute malnutrition. Prior to 1994, one in four children with severe acute malnutrition did not survive treatment.
• Research: Cash-Based Interventions in Food Security
  • Huge strides were made some 13 years ago when Action Against Hunger piloted the first ever therapeutic milk formula used in the medical treatment of severe acute malnutrition. Prior to 1994, one in four children with severe acute malnutrition did not survive treatment.
• Research: Water and Sanitation in Post-Emergency Contexts
  • Huge strides were made some 13 years ago when Action Against Hunger piloted the first ever therapeutic milk formula used in the medical treatment of severe acute malnutrition. Prior to 1994, one in four children with severe acute malnutrition did not survive treatment.

Hunger Watch

Hunger Watch is the Action Against Hunger International Network’s epicenter for advocacy and research. Based in their London headquarters, Hunger Watch supports ACF’s mission of raising awareness and engaging public opinion; packaging and delivering ACF field expertise, analysis, and recommendations to key decision-makers, institutions, and political actors; targeting hunger’s complex of underlying causes; advocating for humanitarian values and outcomes; liaising with academia to exchange scientific research and field-level investigations; and ensuring that vulnerable communities have a voice among international humanitarian deliberations.

Hunger Watch collects, compiles, and packages data and findings from ACF’s extensive field programs in over 40 countries. These on-the-ground perspectives (gleaned directly from thorough field surveys, regional studies, and ongoing technical research) are used to improve the understanding of world hunger and influence responses to humanitarian crises.

Hunger Watch’s current thematic research is focused on defining and measuring the magnitude of malnutrition and hunger and their impact on livelihoods in communities around the world. Their research addresses high priority areas in international development and strive to identify hunger’s root causes.

Current research is being carried out on the relationships between:

• Malnutrition and violent conflict
• The impacts of HIV/AIDS on hunger and malnutrition—case studies in Malawi and Zambia
• The impacts of market instability and climate change on malnutrition rates—case studies on the Sahel
• The relationship between malnutrition and morbidity—case studies in Ethiopia

The findings and recommendations are used to inform and influence humanitarian practices and policies, enabling Action Against Hunger to enhance its own capacities, fine-tune program effectiveness, and influence external stakeholders. Hunger Watch also adds value by distilling local perspectives from ACF’s extensive collaboration with local communities. ACF’s painstaking commitment to community participation plays a key role in the development of effective humanitarian strategies and Hunger Watch can bring these lessons to a broader audience.

Campaigns & Activities

Current Campaigns & Activities

Athletes Against Hunger

A growing number of athletes are devoting their excursions to raising awareness and funds for Action Against Hunger.

This informal assemblage of adventurers, which was dubbed “Athletes Against Hunger,” have devoted their time, resources, and hard work to bringing an end to malnutrition. Bearing the iconic ACF logo to the farthest reaches of the globe, they have climbed Everest, inline skated across the country and hiked the Appalachian Trail, to name a few.

On May 21st 2008, Sophie Denis, an employee at the French bank Calyon in New York City, climbed Mount Everest. At 29 years of age she is the youngest European woman to climb the North Face of the world's tallest mountain, which she climbed in partnership with Action Against Hunger to help raise awareness about world hunger.

In 2008, Jack Sisson, a young college student, spent the summer skating across the United States, from Yorktown, Virgina to San Diego, California, to help spread awareness about and raise funds for world hunger. It took him 72 days to complete the 3,800 journey and he raised a total of $11,670 for the organization, thanks in part to a $5,000 donation from the Rollerblade inline skating company.

On May 17th, 2009, Tad Fry, a local Cleveland runner, ran the 26.2 mile Cleveland Marathon in partnership with Action Against Hunger to help raise awareness about world hunger. He finished 322 out of 2,353 finishers and managed to raise $420.00 for the organization's international programs.

Fast for Awareness

Fast for Awareness is an activity designed to raise awareness about world hunger and help raise funds for ACF's life-saving programs. Participants fast for an allotted time without any food, but beverages can be provided. The purpose of the fast is so that participants can experience something similar to what many around the world feel on a regular basis. In 2009, students in Palo Alto, California, organized their very own Fast for Awareness hosted by the Palo Alto Key Club. This was the second year that the Key Club organized a Fast for Awareness. While last year they raised more than $1,500 for the charity, in 2009, as more than 80 students participated and each was asked to have a minimum $30.00 sponsorship to donate to Action Against Hunger, they managed to raise more than the previous year.

Heart of the Congo Screening

Heart of the Congo is an hour long documentary by Tom Weidlinger that chronicles the efforts of Action Against Hunger staff in a community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In a country ravaged by years of civil war, there is little hope, constant suffering and daily obstacles. Congolese and European staff run health clinics, nurse children suffering from acute malnutrition and work with locals to drill wells for safe drinking water. Both adults and students across the country have expressed interest in being able to screen the movie as part of a specific event to raise awareness about the problems of hunger facing communities all around the world.

Hunger Awareness Leaders of Tomorrow (HALT)

HALT - Hunger Awareness Leaders of Tomorrow is a student group, affiliated with Action Against Hunger, devoted to raising awareness about world hunger issues and about the organization's international programs. This program began in September of 2009 with students at Lebanon Valley College and by December of that same year there were 5 different HALT groups established around the country in Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, California, and Michigan.

Race Against Hunger

The Race Against Hunger is a Service Learning campaign that unites middle and high school students from all over the world in the fight against global hunger and malnutrition. Tapping into the great potential of youth to become powerful agents of change, the Race aims to educate American students about the causes of global hunger and inspire them to be a part of the solution.

The educational component of the Race involves an interactive program about global hunger that teachers implement in their classrooms. Recognizing the paradox of hunger in the developing world amidst an obesity epidemic in the United States, the curriculum is followed by an opportunity for students to engage in a fun and healthy activity through a “fun-run” event. Students seek sponsorships for the “fun-run”, and the proceeds raised by students directly support Action Against Hunger’s life-saving programs around the world.

This program is modeled after the highly successful version run by Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) in France, where over 400 schools and more than 150,000 students participated in 2007 raising over 2 million euros for the charity's international programs.

The Race Against Hunger began in 2008 in Chicago as 700 middle school students from 5 schools got involved in this new program. Following on the successful start to this program, in 2009 nearly 11,000 students from 40 schools in 12 states across the United States and Canada participated to help increase awareness about world hunger and raise funds for the charity. Taking it a step further, some schools took it upon themselves to have their students get even more involved in helping to fight hunger. In Chicago, Ridge Academy extended the educational component of the Race Against Hunger with a series of student research projects focusing on countries where ACF works. In New York, the Global Ambassadors, a student run group from Bronxville Middle School, organized a school-wide Global Awareness Day and a dodge-ball tournament to benefit the charity's programs. And in Paterson, New Jersey, P.S. #5 organized a day-long event for the entire Paterson community. Joined by the mayor, the sheriff and other community leaders, the 600 students opened their Race Against Hunger with a street parade.

In 2003, Zinedine Zidane attended the Race Against Hunger organized by Action Against Hunger Spain (also known as Acción Contra el Hambre) held at the French Lyceum of Madrid. This event raised an estimated 25,000 Euros.

Restaurants Against Hunger

If there is one cause that chefs should be able to get behind, it's the eradication of hunger. So it's no surprise that some of the city's best restaurants are teaming up with Action Against Hunger for its annual "Restaurants Against Hunger" party. - ZaggatBuzz on May 29th, 2009

Action Against Hunger’s annual Restaurants Against Hunger Campaign partners with leaders from the food and beverage industry to bring attention to problem of global hunger. Each year, the campaign raises vital funds and support for Action Against Hunger’s life-saving humanitarian programs.

Various singers have performed at the annual Restaurants Against Hunger Spring Gala including Kaïssa and Clara Lofaro.

Other notable attendees of the annual Restaurants Against Hunger benefit gala have included singer and songwriter Jeffrey Gaines who joined Clara Lofaro onstage for several songs, and the famous French Chef and television personality, Jacques Pepin who made some remarks about the organization's international programs on June 15th, 2009 in New York City.

In September 2009, Le Fooding d'Amour, an event centered upon 12 renowned chefs from New York and Paris, came to the United States for the very first time with an event organized in New York City with the chefs cooking for Action Against Hunger. Tickets for the event were quite inexpensive at $25.00 of which $15.00 went towards supporting the humanitarian organization's international programs.

Past Campaigns & Activities

No Hunger Campaign

The No Hunger Campaign was an international grassroots initiative calling on the former Vice-President of the United States, Al Gore, to make his next movie about world hunger. This initiative which was first launched by Action Against Hunger Spain (Accion Contra el Hambre) in the fall of 2008, was also launched by the other headquarters of Action Against Hunger (United Kingdom, France, United States, and Canada) in 2009. This campaign featured a trailer for No Hunger, a film that has yet to be made, along with a petition addressed to Al Gore.

The goal of having someone make a documentary called No Hunger was to highlight the fact that for the first time in history there are now cost-effective tools that could put an end to childhood deaths from malnutrition. Just as An Inconvenient Truth helped reshape perceptions about Climate Change, Action Against Hunger was hoping that No Hunger could do the same for the fight against hunger.

By the end of 2009, some 72,000 people worldwide had signed the petition and some prominent humanitarians like Desmond Tutu, celebrities like Cara Seymour, Samuel Le Bihan, Jean Rochefort, chefs like Daniel Boulud, Jacques Pepin, and Eric Ripert, and CEOs like Tim Zagat, had publicly endorsed the campaign.

History

On November 15th, 1979, the International Action Against Hunger (Action Contre la Faim International) was launched with Nobel Laureate Alfred Kastler as its first Chairman. Later, that same year, the name was changed to Action Against Hunger (Action Contre la Faim or ACF). At that time, it was estimated that there were 927 million people suffering from hunger in the world.

1980s

• 1980
  • Pakistan: ACF launched its first relief mission in the Afghan refugees camps in Pakistan, providing maternal and infant medical care in the Surkhab and Pir Alizai camps for 180,000 and 120,000 refugees, respectively. The programs initiated also provided latrines and income-generating activities.
  • Thailand: ACF protested attempts by the Vietnamese troops to control distributions of food aid after overthrowing the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia as the occupying forces threatened to withhold emergency assistance destined for the refugee camps until international recognition is bestowed on the new government installed in Phnom Penh.
  • Uganda: ACF launched emergency programs in Uganda to address the ravages of famine in the north of the country, distributing emergency food rations, providing needed farming inputs, and relaunching agricultural production.

• 1982
  • Thailand: ACF provided emergency assistance to Cambodian nationals seeking refuge in Thailand as Vietnamese troops pursue Khmer Rouge forces. Once the crisis stabilized, ACF worked with refugees to strengthen existing medical systems.
  • Chad: ACF responds to problems of desertification, harnessing water supplies for cultivation and village and household use.
  • Haiti: ACF launched water and sanitation programs to address humanitarian problems rooted in poor sanitary conditions in La Tannerie shantytown of Gonaives.

• 1984
  • Sahel, Africa: As famine surfaced in the Sahel, ACF responds with emergency nutrition programs while calling on the international community for support.
  • United States: ACF created the U.S. based American Friends of Action Against Hunger in Washington D.C. – the first of the organization’s international offices.

• 1985
  • Ethiopia: After an alarming on-the-ground assessment, ACF launched emergency programs to address a massive nutritional crisis – the first time since Biafra (Nigeria), 1968 that such widespread famine hits with full force.
  • Sudan: Action Against Hunger intervened in Sudan to counter the cumulative impact of drought and the prospect of famine for hundreds of thousands of Sudanese.

• 1987
  • In less than 10 years, Action Against Hunger is present in some 20 countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mexico, Uganda, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Sudan, Chad, Haiti, Ecuador, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Thailand, Togo, Uruguay, and Zaire.

• 1989
  • Cambodia: ACF launched programs to help develop pastoral and village water points in Takeo Province in the south of the country.

1990s

• 1990
  • Kurdistan: The First Gulf War results in the flight of Kurdish refugees into the hills along the Turkish border. ACF launched programs to restore food security in these camps.

• 1991
  • Liberia & Sierra Leone: ACF responded in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Liberia was in the throes of a bloody civil war, and the world discovers child soldiers and the savagery of a war waged for diamonds. ACF advanced its medical-nutritional expertise with the launch of the Therapeutic Feeding Center, and rolled out expansive water drilling programs.
  • Laos: One of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, the organization launched programs to counter widespread health problems among 120,000 ethnic minorities dependent upon contaminated water sources.

• 1992
  • Bosnia: As the war in former Yugoslavia waged on, ACF launched an array of medical, nutritional, and hygiene programs for refugees and the displaced with outposts in Bosnia, Belgrade, and Serbian Bosnia.
  • Somalia: Wracked by civil war, Somalia was in chaos as 800,000 Somalis fled the country and famine became a reality for those who remained. ACF launched emergency nutrition and water and sanitation programs.

• 1993
  • Breakthrough – F-100 (food) Milk Formula: ACF’s Scientific Committee – and nutritionist Michael Golden, specifically – creates two revolutionary therapeutic milk formulas, F-75 and F-100, that reduce mortality rates by 75% among children in treatment for severe acute malnutrition. Unpatented and field tested by ACF, these nutrition products and their protocols are eventually adopted by the UN’s World Health Organization as the industry standard.
  • Rwanda & Burundi: Working among the displaced as Rwanda’s second war came to an end, ACF was positioned to respond to the chaos unleashed when neighboring Burundi’s first Hutu president was assassinated in October of 1993. ACF launched emergency programs as millions of Burundi refugees pour into Rwanda to escape the fighting.
  • Cambodia: As Cambodian refugees began to return home from Thailand, ACF supported their relocation to the Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces. ACF’s water and sanitation programs provided returning families with access to clean water.
  • Sudan: As the North-South conflict continued, some 100,000 Sudanese fled fighting as food insecurity and hunger threatened hundreds of thousands with malnutrition in the South and ACF responded with a range of emergency programs.
  • Global figures: The number of people suffering from hunger falls to 884.4 million people.

• 1994
  • Rwanda: As ACF worked with Burundi refugees in Rwanda, the agency also turned its attention to grappling with the tragic genocide that began in April of 1994 – a crisis in which 800,000 people were killed. Security conditions ultimately forced ACF and other humanitarian actors to leave the country until after the crisis subsides.
  • Burundi & Tanzania: Action Against Hunger managed nutrition programs for refugees fleeing violence in Burundi and ended up in the Benago refugee camps in Tanzania.
  • Myanmar: As Rohnga refugees returned home from Bangladesh, ACF’s teams helped them resettle their ancestral lands in Rakhine State, which, given their minority status (and routine discrimination), and became a complex and delicate undertaking.

• 1995
  • Action Against Hunger’s international network expanded as two new headquarters are established in London and Madrid.
  • Chechnya: ACF launched emergency programs during the first Chechen war with Russia.
  • Angola: As Angola’s long-standing civil war raged on, ACF carried out food distributions in Caconda and set up training programs for healthcare personnel tasked with a broad vaccination campaign targeting 210,000 individuals in Cafuno and Huila.
  • Georgia & Abkhazia: The war between Georgia and the break-away province of Abkhazia lead to an influx of refugees into Georgia. ACF responded with emergency food and nutrition programs along with an emphasis on livelihoods and income-generating activities.

• 1996
  • ACF participated in the development of the Sphere Project in the wake of the Genocide in Rwanda as the civil society worked to ensure greater coordination among humanitarian actors. The Sphere Project aimed to develop common principles and set minimum international standards for providing assistance in emergencies.
  • Liberia: When ACF’s teams reached the isolated populations of Tubmamaburg, a mere 45 miles from the capital of Monrovia, some 20,000 starving individuals were found trying to survive on leaves, 4,000 of whom are children on the brink of death.

• 1997
  • A fourth ACF headquarter office is opened in New York City, replacing the earlier established “American Friends of ACF.”
  • Breakthrough: The revolutionary nutritional product Plumpy'nut is created. Nutritionist André Briend, working with Nutriset, repackaged the F-100 (food) formulation as a more stable peanut butter-based product, making this life-saving formula available without the need for preparation, clean water, or refrigeration.
  • Somalia: ACF’s humanitarian programs were concentrated in and around Mogadishu, but security conditions deteriorated and Somalia became the first ACF program to be managed “remotely” by ACF’s teams Nairobi, Kenya.

• 1999
  • Kosovo: ACF launched a series of new programs along the Kosovo-Macedonia border, in Montenegro, and in Albania, distributing emergency non-food items, food rations, and clean water among the displaced.

2000s

• 2000
  • North Korea: Action Against Hunger withdrew from North Korea citing the manipulation of international assistance and the inability to independently access the communities receiving aid. The Pyongyang regime denied the true scale of the crisis and refused to support independent humanitarian efforts.
  • North Caucasus: ACF launched programs in the North Caucasus to assist Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.

• 2001
  • Mongolia: With Mongolia in a state of crisis that garnered little interest from the international community, ACF mobilized private funds to provide humanitarian assistance to the populations grappling with a nutritional crisis.
  • Mozambique: ACF mounted an emergency response in Mozambique following the destructive flooding that left thousands homeless.
  • Algeria: After an earthquake that killed 10,000 people in Algeria, Action Against Hunger brought its relief programs to Bab el Oued to assist the survivors and support the recovery.
  • Breakthrough: Valid International introduced Community Therapeutic Care (CTC), a concept that adopts a public health approach to managing acute malnutrition and aims to maximize impact and coverage. CTC, which is later known as CMAM (Community Management of Acute Malnutrition), uses therapeutic ready-to-use-foods and an outpatient model to ensure broader access to treatment — a model with the potential to expand access to life-saving treatment for millions of children in need.

• 2002
  • Zimbabwe: ACF mounted an emergency response as rates of acute malnutrition dramatically increased due to drought and a deep-rooted economic crisis.
  • Iraq: A month after the American-led coalition invaded Iraq, ACF set up emergency nutrition programs.
  • Nepal: Significant rates of acute malnutrition were detected in Nepal, prompting ACF to roll out therapeutic nutrition and longer-term food security programs.

• 2004
  • Iran: ACF launched a large-scale emergency intervention after a massive earthquake caused significant infrastructure damage in Bam, Iran.
  • Darfur, Sudan: After carrying out an on-the-ground assessment, ACF launched large-scale emergency measures to address the dire conditions in Darfur: acute malnutrition, violence, and widespread food insecurity required international attention as western Sudan imploded and entire communities were forced to flee.
  • Asian Tsunami: Already on the ground in South and Southeast Asia — in Sri Lanka since 1996 and Indonesia since 1997—ACF was able to respond immediately after the Asian Tsunami wreaked havoc across the region. The scope of the tragedy, affecting so many in as many countries, triggered an outpouring of support from around the world.
  • Iraq: As insecurity mounted and the lines blurred between military and humanitarian action, ACF had to withdraw from the country.

• 2005
  • Mali & Niger: A combination of widespread drought and perverse market forces caused a series of nutritional crises across Mali and Niger. ACF responded by ramping up existing programs to grapple with the new emergencies.
  • Pakistan: A massive earthquake devastated parts of northern Pakistan, killing upwards of 80,000 and leaving 3 million homeless as winter snows threatened to cut off entire communities from assistance. ACF responded with emergency programs aimed at restoring water infrastructure and stopping the spread of water-borne diseases.

• 2006
  • Sri Lanka – Muttur massacre: In an unprecedented development,17 of Action Against Hunger’s humanitarian workers were executed in their offices in Muttur, eastern Sri Lanka. The international community was outraged but the perpetrators escaped justice as judicial inquiries became politicized. ACF withdrew from Sri Lanka fearing it could no longer protect its own employees.
  • Darfur, Sudan: As security conditions deteriorated and rebel movements multiplied, the Gereida refugee camp in Darfur was attacked with serious consequences for ACF staff and the beneficiaries in their care. ACF was forced to withdraw from the rural parts of northern Darfur, deploying programs to address needs in the south of the country.
  • In collaboration with Ministries of Health in a range of countries, ACF worked directly with government agencies to build local capacity for managing acute malnutrition and cycles of relief and recovery—collaborative initiatives that ensure sustainable public health capacity for the long-term. ACF’s efforts alongside the D.R. Congo’s Ministry of Health has helped ensure significant regional capacity.
  • Global estimate of the number of people suffering from hunger in the stands at 854 million.

• 2007
  • Bangladesh: Cyclone Sidr left a swath of destruction that obliterated harvests, lives, and homes across the south of Bangladesh. ACF responded with a rapid assessment and launched programs to restore livelihoods and access to clean water in the cyclone’s aftermath.
  • Central America & Peru: ACF’s rapid response capabilities were put to the test as Hurricane Felix slammed into Central America and Peru experienced a sizeable earthquake. In both cases, pre-positioned stocks of emergency supplies were flown into the affected areas within 48 hours of these natural disasters.
  • Pakistan: ACF responded to severe flooding in Pakistan’s southern Sindh and Balochistan provinces that affected 2.5 million people and left 400,000 homeless. The combined effects of cyclone Yemyin and intense monsoon rains left hundreds of thousands displaced and without access to safe water and proper sanitation. Action Against Hunger’s emergency intervention ensured access to safe water and sanitation.

• 2008:
  • Global Food Crisis: A global spike in food prices caused unrest as communities and entire countries suddenly found the staples on which they depended beyond reach. ACF undertook a detailed study called Feeding Hunger & Insecurity and called for the creation of a global emergency fund to strengthen smallholder farmers and prioritize acute malnutrition.
  • Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis touched down in Myanmar, destroying harvests, uprooting communities, and devastating livelihoods. ACF responded with rapid assessments and launched programs to restore clean water and restart agricultural production.
  • Kenya: ACF piloted an innovative cash-based relief program in partnership with a national bank to empower communities displaced by post-electoral conflict in Kenya. The program became a model for cash-based emergency responses elsewhere.
  • Hostage Crisis: Security conditions deteriorated in Afghanistan and 2 expatriates were taken hostage. In Somalia, 4 staff members and their 2 pilots were taken hostage. A crisis cell was mobilized.

• 2009
  • Breakthrough: To prevent the seasonal spikes in malnutrition that occur each year during the “hunger gap”— when food stocks are consumed before new harvests are ready— ACF field tested preventive distributions of non-therapeutic RUFs to at-risk children in need of a micronutrient boost during this period of seasonal hunger. ACF was testing the non-therapeutic RUF Plumpy’doz in Northeastern Kenya in conjunction with Tufts University and the Kenyan Research Institute.
  • Sudan: The Government of Sudan expelled Action Against Hunger and 15 other humanitarian organizations in an apparent reprisal for the International Criminal Court’s listing of President Omar al-Bashir as a war criminal. The humanitarian sector scrambled to hand over responsibilities for several large-scale programs on which hundreds of thousands depended.
  • Hostage Crisis: 3 ACF staff were taken hostage in northeastern Kenya by an armed group from Somalia. The hostages were held in Mogadishu until ACF secured their release 3 months later after working with a range of clan and community leaders in Somalia. Additionally, the staff members that were kidnapped in Afghanistan and Somalia in 2008 were also released.
  • Regional Center: ACF opened a Regional Training Center in Nairobi, Kenya to provide professional development and technical training for the thousands of ACF staff members implementing programs in nutrition, food security, and water, sanitation, & hygiene that benefit some three million people in vulnerable communities in East and Central Africa.
  • The global estimate of the number of people suffering from hunger in the world rose to 1.02 billion people for the first time in history.

Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award

The Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award recognizes individuals who have made substantive contributions to the humanitarian field through philanthropy, public awareness, or their efforts to directly improve conditions for distressed communities.

On November 18th, 2009, Wall Street Journal reporters Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman and Procter & Gamble were awarded with the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in recognition of their efforts on behalf of distressed communities around the world. This was the first time that the organization honored a corporation for its philanthropic commitments. Procter & Gamble's Children Safe Drinking Water Program, launched in 2004, has helped guarantee millions of liters of clean water to families in need. This program helps provide a water purification product, the PUR Purified Water Packets, at the same cost it takes to produce it to organizations like Action Against Hunger. These packets have been used in many recent natural disasters such as the 2004 Asian tsunami, floods in Bangladesh and the Philippines, and hurricanes in the Caribbean. Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman were honored for writing Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, which has helped bring global hunger to the attention of a mass audience. Additionally, the journalists' coverage of hunger for the Wall Street Journal was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

In 2008, Anderson Cooper was the first journalist to receive the annual award. He was selected as the recipient for the award in 2008 for his ongoing coverage of key global issues and for bringing some of the most glaring humanitarian tragedies into focus for the American public.

In 2007, film director and Academy Award nominee Terry George was the recipient of the annual award for his long-standing humanitarian commitments, and the impact of his award winning depiction of the Rwandan Genocide in his movie, Hotel Rwanda.

The 2006 Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award recipient was Susan Sarandon. She was honored for her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, an advocate for victims of hunger and HIV/AIDS, and a spokesperson for Heifer International. Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore introduced her and presented her with the award.

In 2005, the recipient of the award was the Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu in recognition of his outstanding work against hunger, malnutrition and poverty worldwide.

Past recipients of the award have included Nobel Laureate and former South African President Nelson Mandela (2004), as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt (2002), Jeff Bridges, and Professor Michael Golden and Dr. Yvonne Grellety for their roles in inventing the therapeutic milk formula F-100 (food). This product is the revolutionary life-saving formula that helps cure malnutrition, now the standard for relief organizations worldwide.

Some notable attendees of the annual Action Against Hunger Benefit Gala have included prominent personalities such as Christy Turlington, the American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007, who spoke at the 2007 Gala and presented awards at both the 2006 and 2007 galas, Elie Weisel, the Nobel Peace prize winner of 1986, who presented the award to Nelson Mandela in 2004, and William Baldwin, the actor, who presented award at the 2001 gala.

Partnerships

G Movement - Gatorade

Pursuing the Athletes Against Hunger initiative further, Action Against Hunger launched a campaign called G Movement on October 5th of 2009, in partnership with Gatorade. This campaign works to harness the power of athletics to bring attention to the crisis of world hunger affecting 1 billion people around the world. Participants completed an athletic challenge of their choice and encouraged their friends and family to support their efforts by raising funds for the organization's international programs. One of the goals of this campaign was to encourage both professional athletes and aspiring athletes to get involved in the fight against hunger. All G Movement participants received a Gatorade hydration package and an online training tool powered by Core Performance. In addition, five of the participants were awarded a $2,000 grant to help them train for their G Movement Challenge and a year's supply of Gatorade. Additionally, to help inspire the athletes, Gatorade donated $100,000 to support the organization's programs.

Global Water Initiative - Buffett Foundation

Action Against Hunger joined forces with the Howard Graham Buffett Foundation and a select number of nonprofits to launch the “Global Water Initiative” (GWI). The GWI aims to provide comprehensive solutions to communities lacking drinking water and proper sanitation around the world, but also serves as an exciting new model for nonprofits and major private foundations (one designed to enhance nonprofit capacities while scaling-up the reach and impact of their programs).

Having committed $150 million over 10 years, the GWI focuses on the needs of some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities in 13 countries across Africa and Central America. The GWI’s 7 partners are addressing the challenges of long-term access to clean water and sanitation, access to water for rural production, and the sustainable management of ecosystem and watershed services.

Unprecedented among development initiatives, the GWI is unique in bringing together a broad coalition of nonprofit experts to support services in water supply, sanitation, agriculture, environmental management, water resource analysis, policy development, and public education. The initiative’s partners were involved from the outset, collectively building a common vision, coordinating roles and responsibilities, and sharing accountability for the GWI’s regional ventures.

Lose For Good - Weight Watchers & Share Our Strength

Started in 2008, the annual Lose For Good campaign is a partnership between Weight Watchers, a leader in weight management services, Share Our Strength, one of the leading organizations working to eliminate hunger in the United States, and Action Against Hunger.

The goal of the Lose For Good campaign is to encourage Americans to not only get in shape, but to do it while helping those suffering from hunger, both in the United States and abroad, receive treatment. The “Lose for Good” campaign helps motivate better eating habits with an unusual opportunity to take personal action against global hunger. “Lose For Good is designed to further inspire Weight Watchers members as they take the first step on a journey towards improving their well-being,” said David Kirchhoff, President and CEO of Weight Watchers International, Inc. “In doing so, they will help others by converting their weight loss into another person’s gain.”

In 2008, for the inaugural Lose For Good Campaign, Weight Watchers members and online subscribers lost over four million pounds, resulting in the company donating the maximum one million dollars to Action Against Hunger and Share Our Strength. That Lose For Good campaign also collected and distributed 1.5 million pounds of food to families across the United States.

In the second annual Lose For Good Campaign in 2009, Weight Watchers donated $250,000 for every million pounds lost by its members and online subscribers (up to 1 million dollars). In addition, Lose For Good 2009 had two additional features:

• Global Good: This was designed to provide friends and family of Weight Watchers members with a chance to inspire participants to achieve their target weight loss by making challenge contributions to Action Against Hunger.
• Lose-A-Palooza: This was a one-day online social networking event that took place on September 15th, 2009 to help raise awareness of and participation in the Lose For Good campaign. For each mention of Lose For Good made that day via blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace, Weight Watchers donated an additional $1.00 (up to $25,000) to both charities. A total of $23,530 was raised on that day.

The donations from Weight Watchers are shared between both charities, Action Against Hunger and Share Our Strength.

ONE Campaign

Believing that 2008 was a crucial year in the fight against hunger and absolute poverty and as a partner of the ONE Campaign, Action Against Hunger took a leading role in the fight to make poverty history. As a major international humanitarian organization, Action Against Hunger used its resources to wholly support the ONE Campaign in its endeavors to alleviate absolute poverty and put an end to the travesty of millions suffering and dying around the world from a lack of access to food, adequate health-care, education, sanitation and water.

The ONE Campaign's goal was to raise public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in developing countries. In furtherance of these purposes, the ONE Campaign:

• Mobilized people from all 50 states and America's leading non-profit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations to expand awareness of these issues
• Published educational information about the impact of overseas development assistance and reformation of unfair international trade regimes on global poverty, hunger and disease
• Raised awareness about and promoted the framework of the Millennium Development Goals to eradicate poverty and improve public health and education

Recognition & Awards

Action Against Hunger consistently receives high markings from independent rating organizations:

• Charity Navigator has awarded the organization a consecutive four-star rating for sound organizational management.
• The Better Business Bureau's (BBB) Wise Giving Alliance has verified that Action Against Hunger meets all of its rigorous standards.
• The American Institute of Philanthropy qualifies the organization as a top-rated hunger organization awarding it an "A" rating.
• Guidestar offered a third party, independent assessment of Action Against Hunger as a "Best in America" nonprofit.
• Action Against Hunger was also awarded the Independent Charities Seal of Excellence which certifies that a charity meets the highest standards of public accountability, program effectiveness, and cost effectiveness -- standards required by the USA Government for inclusion in the Combined Federal Campaign. Of the more than 1 million charities in the United States, fewer than 50,000 (5%) meet these high standards, and, of those, fewer than 2,000 have been awarded the seal.

In 2008, Action Against Hunger's World Water Day video received the Short Short Winner award by Metacafe's MetaFest.

Where ACF Works

Africa

Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zimbabwe

Americas

Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Venezuela,Peru

Asia

Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Timor, Georgia, Indonesia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Tajikistan

Europe

Armenia

Middle East

Iran, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories

Governance

Action Against Hunger USA

Board of Directors

Raymond Debbane - Chairman (The Invus Group, LLC); Joseph G. Audi (InterAudi Bank); Alexis Azria (Writer); Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo (Enriquez-Bocobo Constructs); Pierre Fay (Luxottica Group); Burton K. Haimes - Chairman Emeritus (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP); Yves-André Istel (Rothschild, Inc.); Ketty Pucci-Sisti Maisonrouge (KettyMaisonrouge & Company, Inc.), Daniel Py (Medical-Instill Technologies), Thilo Semmelbauer, Wendy C. Weiler (Argosy Partners), Kara Young

Advisory Council

Henri Barguirdjian (Graff USA); Christian Blanckaert (Hermès, France); Olivier Cassegrain (Longchamp); Sabine Cassel; Chris Davis (Boomerang & HealthandAge.com); Robert de Rothschild (Rothschild, Inc.); Nicole Douillet (Crédit Suisse); Kaïssa Doumbè-Moulongo Schejbal (Singer); Catherine Dumait-Harper; Lynn Frailey (Events Planner); Peggy Kerry (US Mission to the United Nations); James G. Niven (Sotheby’s); Xavier Noël (Paris Gourmet); Maciek Schejbal (Kaïssa Management - Makai Productions); Cara Seymour (Actress); Rick Smilow (The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE)); Alice Stock (Lowenstein Sandler PC); Ronald Waldman (School of Public Health, Columbia University); Tim Zagat & Nina Zagat (Zagat Survey)

Action Against Hunger UK

Board of Directors

Paul Wilson, Frances Mason, John Barwick, Francois Danel, Denis Metzger

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