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Take Action PASSPORT 2009 Against Hunger in your school! RACE AGAINST HUNGER NAME: SCHOOL: TEACHER: CITY, STATE: SPONSORSHIP GOAL: www.actionagainsthunger.org/race Students About Race Against Hunger! hunger and How you can help end global hunger: malnutrition In order to help fight global Learn about global hunger hunger, you should first 1 and how to fight it. know what hunger means. Raise awareness about global HUNGER The result of the persistent hunger in your community 2 intake of less than the daily and seek sponsors for your amount of calories your bodyneeds to be nourished Race Against Hunger. and active. FAMINE Participate in your school’s The absolute unavailability Race! The proceeds you or inaccessibility of food in 3 a given region, possibly raise will help save the lives causing imminent death. of malnourished children around the world. MALNUTRITION A broad term for a wide range of conditions that prevent good health, caused by an inadequate or unbalanced food intake. While we tend to associate malnutrition CONTENTS with under-nutrition, or lack of food intake, malnutrition Students Race Against Hunger 1 also includes over-nutrition, About hunger and malnutrition 1 or the consumption of too much food. Obesity is a form Scope of hunger and malnutrition in the world 2 of malnutrition. About Action Against Hunger 3 FOOD SECURITY Action Against Hunger program map 4 A situation during which all How your money helps 4 people, at all times, have access economically, socially Case Study: Burundi 6 and physically to sufficient, Preparing for the Race Against Hunger 8 safe and nutritious food that Tips on seeking sponsors 8 satisfies their nutritional needs and dietary preferences. Sponsor Form 9 (1) Scope of Hunger and About Action Against Hunger Malnutrition in the World Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) HUNGER & MALNUTRITION works to save the lives of malnourished children while providing families with access to safe water r Over 963 million people around the world, or 15% of the and sustainable solutions to hunger. Working in some world’s population, suffer from hunger and malnutrition. 40 countries, Action Against Hunger’s humanitarian This amounts to more than the combined populations of the United States, Canada and the European Union! interventions provide lasting solutions to 5 million people a year, restoring dignity, r An overwhelming majority of the world’s hungry reside self-sufficiency, and independence to vulnerable in the developing world. populations throughout the world. r Every day, almost 15,000 children die from hunger- related causes. Our mission: r 19 million children under the age of 5 suffer from severe Eradicate acute malnutrition, end global hunger, strengthen acute malnutrition, which, if left untreated, can lead the most vulnerable, and restore independence and to death. self-sufficiency to families in need. r More than 60% of the world’s chronically hungry are women. Source: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 12/08 Our main programs 1. Nutrition WATER Our nutrition programs treat and prevent acute malnutrition for those most vulnerable, particularly children. The programs r More than one billion people lack access to a safe are often launched during times of crisis—when an earthquake supply of drinking water. devastates a city, when civil war tears apart a country, when drought leads to famine, when families flee violence only to r 2.2 billion people, or 1/3 of the world’s population, confront hunger. do not have access to basic sanitation facilities; 1.2 billion of these people have no facilities at all. 2. Food Security Our food security programs prevent future outbreaks of r Water-related diseases are one of the leading causes malnutrition by helping families and communities regain of disease and death in the world. self-sufficiency. These programs include introducing drought- resistant seeds to a rural community affected by ongoing r The average American individual uses 100 to 176 drought. Or, for refugees living in camps without access to gallons of water each day. The average African family arable fields, we might launch a micro-gardening project. uses about 5 gallons of water each day. 3. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Source: Water Partners International Our approach to fighting hunger includes extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and poor hygiene. Depending on the context, we truck water into affected communities during emergencies, decontaminate wells, install solar-, diesel-, and hand-powered pumps, and build latrines, among other projects. (2) (3) ARMENIA GEORGIA CHECHNYA AZERBAIJAN MONGOLIA Programs Launched: 1994 Programs Launched: 1995 Programs Launched: 1999 Programs Launched: 2000 Programs Launched: 2001 Where Action Against Hunger International Staff: 2 International Staff: 8 International Staff: 7 International Staff: 2 International Staff: 5 National Staff: 22 National Staff: 70 National Staff: 51 National Staff: 15 National Staff: 48 Works Worldwide Beneficiaries: 12,300 Beneficiaries: 33,950 Beneficiaries: 48,758 Beneficiaries: 12, 300 Beneficiaries: 10,180 IRAN GuateMALA MALI CHAD NEPAL MYANMAR Programs Launched: 1998 Programs Launched: 1996 Programs Launched: 1981 (reinstated in 2004) Programs Launched: 2003 International Staff: 3 Programs Launched: 2005 Programs Launched: 1994 International Staff: 5 International Staff: 13 International Staff: 5 International Staff: 10 International Staff: 10 National Staff: 58 National Staff: 78 National Staff: 44 National Staff: 30 Beneficiaries: 26,347 National Staff: 54 National Staff: 200 Beneficiaries: 101,468 Beneficiaries: 250,000 Beneficiaries: 50,000 Beneficiaries: 32,549 Beneficiaries: 38,438 HONDURAS NIGER LEBANON Programs Launched: 2007 Palestinian TERRITORIES LAOS Programs Launched: 1998 Programs Launched: 1997 Programs Launched: 1991 International Staff: 0 International Staff: 18 International Staff: 2 Programs Launched: 2002 National Staff: 40 International Staff: 5 International Staff: 8 National Staff: 25 National Staff: 251 National Staff: 104 Beneficiaries: 12,000 Beneficiaries: 165,500 Beneficiaries: 50,000 National Staff: 22 Beneficiaries: 38,929 Beneficiaries: 35,901 HAITI SUDAN ETHIOPIA Programs Launched: 1985 Programs Launched: 1985 Programs Launched: 1984 International Staff: 7 International Staff: 64 International Staff: 14 National Staff: 56 National Staff: 897 National Staff: 113 Beneficiaries: 66,533 Beneficiaries: 1,233,729 Beneficiaries: 132,456 GUINEA SOMALIA PHILIPPINES Programs Launched: 1995 Programs Launched: 1992 Programs Launched: 2000 International Staff: 6 International Staff: 10 International Staff: 4 National Staff: 113 National Staff: 164 National Staff: 40 Beneficiaries: 80,000 Beneficiaries: 133,631 Beneficiaries: 35,000 COLOMBIA IVORY COAST Programs Launched: 1998 Programs Launched: 2002 KENYA International Staff: 3 International Staff: 7 Programs Launched: 2002 International Staff: 12 National Staff: 42 National Staff: 59 INDONESIA Beneficiaries: 18,000 Beneficiaries: 91,511 National Staff: 200 SIERRA LEONE Beneficiaries: 49,000 Programs Launched: 1997 Programs Launched: 1991 International Staff: 17 International Staff: 10 LIBERIA UGANDA National Staff: 185 National Staff: 140 Programs Launched: 1991 Programs Launched: 1995 Beneficiaries: 128,556 Beneficiaries: 154,550 International Staff: 17 BURUNDI International Staff: 6 National Staff: 231 Programs Launched: 1994 National Staff: 100 Nicaragua Beneficiaries: 78,500 International Staff: 14 Beneficiaries: 750,000 Programs Launched: 1996 National Staff: 290 International Staff: 1 ANGOLA Beneficiaries: 180,410 PaKistan National Staff: 14 Programs Launched: 1995 Programs Launched: 2005 Beneficiaries: 10,600 International Staff: 9 International Staff: 6 National Staff: 60 National Staff: 40 Beneficiaries: 418,000 Beneficiaries: 70,000 AFghanistan Programs Launched: 1995 International Staff: 14 ARGENTINA National Staff: 239 Programs Launched: 2002 Beneficiaries: 206,006 International Staff: 1 National Staff: 18 DEMOcratic REPUBLIC MALAWI TAJIKistan Beneficiaries: 4,000 families OF THE CONGO (DRC) Programs Launched: 2002 Programs Launched: 1998 Programs Launched: 1996 International Staff: 10 International Staff: 5 International Staff: 40 National Staff: 140 National Staff: 130 National Staff: 600 Beneficiaries: 40,000 Beneficiaries: 25,000 Beneficiaries: 400,000 ZIMBABWE SRI LANKA Programs Launched: 2002 Programs Launched: 1996 International Staff: 8 International Staff: 20 National Staff: 61 National Staff: 167 Beneficiaries: 161,116 Beneficiaries: 55,571 HOW $5 Can supply a lemon, $15 $35 $50 $100 banana, mango, or orange Will provide the 30-day Can provide an oven, YOUR Will provide two Builds a hand pump in a tree to a farming family small village, providing nutritional treatment ingredients, tools, incorporating fresh fruit under-nourished children necessary to save the life and training for a woman to MONEY access to clean water and of a severely malnourished into their diets while also with supplementary foods start a bakery and preventing soil erosion and safety from water-borne for one month to prevent child in a therapeutic generate income for her desertification, and providing diseases. HELPS malnutrition and promote feeding center. family, giving them access shade. (Desertification is the healthy development. expansion of the arid desert to a balanced diet, health due to climate change.) care, and school. (4) (5) CASE STUDY BURUNDI