Feature articles

27/10/10 Action Against Hunger Responds to Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

Action Against Hunger rushes to contain crisis in hard-hit areas as illness threatens thousands of lives

15/10/10 World Food Day 2010: Meet Maimouna

Follow Maimouna’s recovery from acute malnutrition at an Action Against Hunger Therapeutic Feeding Centre in Bangui.

01/10/10 Humanitarian Emergency in Pakistan

Mohamed Mechmache, Action Against Hunger’s Emergency Field Coordinator, reports on Action Against Hunger’s response to the crisis

03/09/10 Action Against Hunger Provides Clean Water & Sanitation in Flood-Affected Pakistan

Despite serious logistical challenges in reaching flood survivors in hard-hit areas of Pakistan, Action Against Hunger | ACF-International has launched emergency programmes to stem outbreaks of deadly water-borne illnesses and help families who have lost everything. These programmes target 52,500 people, particularly affected by torrential rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh regions.

25/08/10 Putting malnutrition back on the agenda in the Ivory Coast

We caught up with Nutrition & Medical Co-ordinator Raffaella Gentillini who has just returned from the Ivory Coast where she has spent the last year and a half providing long-term solutions to malnutrition in the Northern region of the country.

13/08/10 Against All Odds: Baby Monday's Story

Nurses at the Therapeutic Feeding Centre in the Kaabong Referral Hospital call him “the miracle baby.” In the hospital records his name is Monday; the staff name orphaned babies according to the day of the week they are born.

26/07/10 Aspirations Prevail Amid Catastrophic Food Crisis

Sitting in front of a feeding centre supported by Action Against Hunger in Kanem, Western Chad, one year old Adam smiles weakly as his mother Hawa cradles him. Determined to save her son, Hawa had travelled five days by camel in the burning heat to bring him to the feeding centre. His whole body swollen with oedema, Adam was in an advanced stage of acute malnutrition, a life-threatening type of hunger.

21/07/10 Niger in Crisis: the latest images

Drought, crop failure and high food prices have triggered severe food shortages in Niger. View the latest images and Action Against Hunger’s response here.

19/07/10 Haiti: Action Against Hunger Provides Assistance to Thousands of Survivors

On January 12th a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing an estimated 230,000 people and turning the capital and surrounding areas to rubble. In Haiti for over 25 years, Action Against Hunger was one of the first organisations to respond to the disaster, rushing to provide clean water and deliver emergency services in nutrition, sanitation and hygiene. Today, we assist thousands of Haitian families living in very precarious conditions in some 40 camps throughout Port-au-Prince.