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Our impact in 2011
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The year 2011 saw catastrophic devastation from natural disasters, malnutrition and drought-related food crises.
From the disastrous earthquake in Japan to political upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East, massive floods in Pakistan and Bangladesh to the drought, malnutrition, and food shortages that have ravaged East Africa, the immense need for humanitarian assistance has been ongoing.
Action Against Hunger has been on the frontlines throughout 2011, providing life-saving assistance while restoring independence and self-sufficiency to millions of people in more than 40 countries.
Here’s a glimpse of what we’ve accomplished together in 2011:
Action Against Hunger assisted 940,000 people across East Africa
Over 13 million people across East Africa faced food shortages, livestock losses, and severe drought in 2011.
Action Against Hunger responded across the region—in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia—providing nutritional support and therapeutic treatment for malnourished children and emergency access to food, clean water and sanitation for the most vulnerable.
To date, we’ve helped more than 940,000 people.
A record 48,500 children's lives saved from starvation in D. R Congo
Since 2003, Action Against Hunger has worked to strengthen local health systems in D.R. Congo to help combat severe acute malnutrition.
The year 2011 was no different as our teams trained thousands of health workers, equipped hundreds of hospitals and health centres, and administered life-saving therapeutic treatment to a record 48,500 severely malnourished children—the most lives saved by Action Against Hunger in a single country.
Over 700,000 people now have access to clean drinking water
Whether responding to natural disasters or malnutrition, Action Against Hunger’s global water and sanitation experts ensure that vulnerable communities can access clean water, improved sanitation, and avoid life-threatening diseases like cholera and dysentery.
In contexts as diverse as D.R. Congo, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan and Pakistan, our teams provided over 700,000 people with access to water and sanitation in 2011.
We helped nearly 600,000 Ugandans achieve self-sufficiency
Our international teams helped nearly 600,000 people with food security programs in 2011.
In the five years since the Lord’s Resistance Army collapsed, Action Against Hunger has supported “returnees” as they leave displacement camps (where they’d resided for over 20 years) and move back to their ancestral homes—a massive migration requiring significant agricultural and livelihood support.
In 2011 alone, Action Against Hunger helped nearly 600,000 Ugandans restart income-generating projects and bolster their agricultural activity.
Over 350,000 are provided access to clean water in Pakistan
After last year’s catastrophic floods, monsoon rains once again inundated southern Pakistan in 2011, affecting millions.
Action Against Hunger prioritised the emergency provision of clean water and sanitation, installing water storage tanks, rehabilitating wells and fortifying water points, building latrines and distributing chlorine tablets.
To date, these efforts have provided over 350,000 people with sustained access to clean water.
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