Imagine starting 2026 knowing you had already helped save a child’s life. Please donate now to help save children’s lives this winter. 

Right now, millions of parents are watching as their children are gripped by acute malnutrition. Too weak to walk, no strength to play, and no energy to learn.

But this suffering is preventable, and you can help stop it.

We’ve developed an intensive treatment to bring children back from the brink of deadly malnutrition: special therapeutic milk to provide urgent nutrition, peanut paste to help them gain weight, and expert advice to keep children healthy.

Here’s the amazing thing: it takes just six weeks of this treatment to turn their chances around.

That means if you donate today to help fund our programme, you could help a child recover by New Year’s.

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Halima’s story

Halima had severe acute malnutrition – the most life-threatening form of hunger. Her hands and feet were swollen, and inflamed patches on her skin had darkened and peeled. Her hair lost its colour, became brittle and started falling out.

Her mum Fatuma heard about a nearby Action Against Hunger-funded medical centre that could help her daughter. The next day she was admitted.

With expert care over six weeks, Halima was nursed back to health. She was given therapeutic milk and, later, ready-to-use therapeutic food to help her grow stronger and healthier. Our team also advised Fatuma on the best way to feed Halima and good hygiene practices.

With the treatment she received, Halima has recovered well. Although she may never grow as tall as her peers, Fatuma knows that further delay could have caused permanent physical and learning disabilities – leaving Halima’s life in further danger.