According to a Gallup survey, 40% of Filipinos are food insecure, making the Philippines on hunger’s world top 10.
One organization that seeks to address this is Feed the Hungry. Through grants and programs to promote education, it also works with the most needy in small business and community development, from fruit tree farming to chicken production. It also teachers new mothers nutrition through cooking courses, and offers supplemental feeding for children under 6 for 6-months. Supplementary feeding programs are also delivered to schools.
Source: Feed the Hungry
Check out some of their great work.
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Category: Class Act, Food Politics
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Belinda, thanks for giving us this insight.
I love these organizations….helping kids with hunger!!!!I am going to check their work!
I had no idea the Philippines had such a hunger issue. Thanks for sharing this wonderful group.
Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea hunger issues were so high in the Phillipines, it makes me think just how lucky we really are..
I realized that when I was in Japan I hear more about hunger issues in neighboring countries but since I moved to the US, it’s true that I rarely hear it. Great post to remind us about the issue as well as wonderful organizations.
This seems like a sensible way to go about it; giving people education rather than just throwing food at them short term. I would never have thought the Philippines had these hunger gaps.
thank you for sharing, we are truly lucky!