Halima walks around her home in an internally displaced people camp in Somalia. Halima recovered from life-threatening malnutrition thanks to the support of Action Against Hunger.

UK aid: saving lives

The UK has led global efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition around the world.

Email your MP to protect UK Aid

Together we can show the UK Government why UK Aid is so important to children’s futures.

Millions of children have been treated for life-threatening hunger through UK Aid. But 168,000 more children could die from malnutrition by 2022 because of the impact of Covid-19. These children are in some of the world’s poorest places – often living through conflict.

Their futures are worth fighting for. But right now, proposed cuts to UK Aid could put their futures in jeopardy.

UK Aid shows the world that we’re a committed, passionate country that steps in when children are at risk of dying from hunger and malnutrition.

We can still save UK AidMohamed eats ready-to-use therapeutic food at an Action Against Hunger stabilisation centre in Mogadishu, Somalia.

We can still save UK Aid

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How UK Aid helps

  • 50M

    In the last five years, nutrition programmes supported by UK Aid have reached 50 million people.

  • 23

    In 2020, UK Aid supported 23 Action Against Hunger projects – helping tens of thousands of people to tackle malnutrition.

  • 14

    UK Aid helped Action Against Hunger respond to 14 emergencies around the world in 2020, including the coronavirus pandemic.

Three reasons to be proud of UK Aid

  1. In the last five years, UK Aid’s nutrition programmes have reached 50 million people – an incredible achievement.
  2. UK Aid-funded health clinics have treated millions of children like Halima and Mohamed whose lives were at risk because of malnutrition. They were treated by doctors and nurses who had received training through UK Aid funding.
  3. UK leadership has made tackling malnutrition a global priority – since hosting the first-ever Nutrition for Growth Summit in 2013, the UK helped to raise £17 billion to help end hunger around the world.
Action Against Hunger Somalia helped Halima recover from life-threatening malnutrition.

UK Aid saved Halima's life

If malnutrition is treated fast, a child has a future. With expert care, one-year-old Halima survived life-threatening hunger and was nursed back to health in just six weeks.

Read Halima's story

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The UK’s leadership on hunger is unmatched. The UK should continue to save lives and build brighter futures for malnourished children around the world.

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