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Early action saves lives. Your gifts will help predict, prevent and life-threatening hunger all over the world.

Shockingly, 1 in 11 people go to be hungry every night. But life-threatening hunger is predictable, preventable and treatable, and a world without it is possible.

- We predict through revolutionary early warning systems that spot the early signs of hunger so we can step in before it takes hold.
- We prevent by tackling the underlying causes of life-threatening hunger, and train parents and healthcare workers to spot the first signs of malnutrition.
- We treat children in specialist nutrition centres where health workers give babies nutrient-rich formula milk (if a mother is too malnourished to breastfeed), developed by our own scientists.

When diagnosed in time and with the right treatment, a child’s life can be saved in just six weeks.

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Gallery How we predict, prevent and treat hunger
Baby Clinton was abandoned by his mother and left for dead. When his grandmother Mary found him, he was skin and bones. The only thing he had to eat was soil. Action Against Hunger quickly diagnosed malnutrition and gave him a peanut-based, calorie-dense paste. Now Clinton is a healthy, talkative and energetic toddler.
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Janet, a 60-year-old Community Health Worker in Tanzania, is nicknamed the ‘street doctor’. She walks miles to do home visits, checking children’s health and preventing malnutrition. “Nothing feels as good and satisfying as seeing the children who were once very weak due to malnutrition now playing outside their houses, full of smiles,” she says.
Gallery How we predict, prevent and treat hunger
Our team of scientists developed F100, the first-ever therapeutic formula to treat severely malnourished children, and were the first organisation to use Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food.
Gallery How we predict, prevent and treat hunger
“My daughter used to cry so much and had become really skinny," says Sumera who lives in Pakistan. "We took her to the hospital and found she was suffering from severe malnourishment. Thankfully, Action Against Hunger came to help us. Thanks to them, I was able to save my daughter’s life.”
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Abdiya knew she felt unwell in her pregnancy – she often felt lightheaded and suffered from blurred vision - but didn't know who to ask for help. Although Abdiya lives with her family in a camp in a remote part of Ethiopia, Action Against Hunger was there to help. She was treated in our mobile clinic where she got the medication she needed and learnt how to prevent malnutrition.
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Salama could only afford two meals a day for her family in their village of Ving’awe, Tanzania before she started her kitchen garden. Action Against Hunger showed her how to plant vegetables in her small plot at home and gave her seeds, a water tank and watering cans. Now her family eats three nutritious meals a day.
Gallery How we predict, prevent and treat hunger
We’ve set up revolutionary early warning systems that spot the early signs of life-threatening hunger so we can step in before it takes hold. We use satellites to detect crops and water. These are sent straight to farmers, pointing them to better grazing land where their animals can eat and drink.

Hawa, an Action Against Hunger community health worker in Mali.

We're saving lives through community health workers

Hawa Coulibaly is a community health worker in Kourougue village, Mali. The West African country of Mali is in the grip of a hunger crisis. A child will die every five minutes and half of those deaths are because of malnutrition. For families in rural Mali, the nearest basic health centre can be 150 miles away.