A U.S. ship carrying enough wheat to feed more than one million people for four months was delivered for distribution to the Syrian people. The United Nations World Food Program received the contribution, worth more than $19 million, on April 21 in Beirut, Lebanon. The ship's cargo gave the WFP the ability to add flour to the monthly food basket of more than one million people.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation announced Tuesday that they have forged an alliance to battle hunger in Africa, beginning with a $150 million endowment.
Village Harvest began two years ago, when Craig Diserens founded a backyard gleaning effort in California that now gathers thousands of pounds of fresh fruit from historical orchards (some planted during the Gold Rush 150 years ago) and private property for donatation to food agencies.
DC Entertainment, home of some of the greatest super heroes, unleashed a giving campaign to help fight the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa. A multi-million-dollar commitment over the next two years by partners Warner Bros. and Time Warner will feature the Justice League characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern issuing a call to action, with 100 percent of the donations matched dollar for dollar.
Hilton Hotels has launched a program to collect safe, surplus food from conferences and daily restaurant operations that would otherwise be thrown away, and providing it to those in need. A multi-year partnership with two hunger organizations began a month ago to ensure that hotel food, instead of being wasted, is distributed to local food banks, soup kitchens, and school programs in Egypt and the US.
After hearing the shocking figure that up to 40 percent of produce goes to waste in the fields, Christy Porter founded Hidden Harvest an organization that employs the working poor to rescue farmers' leftover produce to feed the hungry.
Primary pupils will receive free school meals as part of a six-month pilot project in Scotland that will improve the diets for all children by providing a nutritious lunch.
1,500 tons of food that would have gone to waste will now go to UK charities every year thanks to an innovative plan by the British grocery chain, Asda. Teaming up with hunger charity FareShare, Asda will divert surplus refrigerated food that arrives from suppliers, ensuring it won't end up in the trash bin.
Poverty rates in Latin America have dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years, according to a new United Nations report which points to higher wages as a key factor in the continent's development despite the global economic crisis. Between 1990 and 2010, the poverty rate decreased 17 percent.
This artist is spending a week making thousands of sandwiches for the poor in honor of all the school lunches her mother packed over the years.
What started off as a student government project has become a full-time resource for teens in the North Carolina school who don't have enough food at home.
When two Los Angeles teens ordered $151.51 worth of burgers at a local McDonald's last week, the cashier thought he had heard them wrong.
The drought-induced famine crisis in Somalia has eased somewhat, United Nations officials said on Friday, with the number of people facing imminent starvation dropping to nearly 250,000 from 750,000 because of rainfall and increased aid deliveries.
A new French law could mean redistributing more than 850 million tons of food currently thrown away to the country's hungry instead.
Renowned rapper Snoop Dogg ushered in the Thanksgiving spirit by handing out 1500 turkeys–along with optional hugs, kisses, and selfies–in California.
After a fundraiser raised nearly $55K for a man who had just arrived in Denver and become homeless with his toddler, the pair was out feeding the hungry.
Every day you can make a contribution to easing world hunger just by clicking on the donate free food button on the internet home page of The Hunger Site. Since its inception, millions of pounds of food have been donated.
Heifer Project International (HPI) provides income-producing animals to people in nearly 40 countries. Shoppers buy an animal in honor of a friend or relative and send the recipient an attractive card describing the gift of hope being given in his or her name.
This 24-year-old hero left his job at J.P. Morgan to start a nonprofit that has saved 100,000 pounds of good food for delivery to homeless shelters in NYC.
A vegan family, Michelle Carrera, and her 4-year-old son Ollie, realized the city's soup kitchen meals all contained meat, so the two started bringing their warm homemade vegan chili to those in need, calling it 'Chili on Wheels'.
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