In achieving our goals, every person will have enough of the right food to be healthy and productive; babies will be born strong; women and girls will be full partners in society; and people will have control over their own lives. - Cathy Burke, CEO The Hunger Project Australia
The Hunger Project supports a strategy where people think differently, work strategically, and understand who the main players for ending hunger will be. Adopting an integrated approach The Hunger Project combines programs in health, education, adult literacy, nutrition, improved farming and food security, microfinance, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS prevention, and builds community spirit that involves the entire population.
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International
Visitor
Amrote Abdella, Senior
Program Officer for The
Hunger Project's Micro
Finance Program, the African
Women Food Farmer Initiative (AWFFI) visited Australia
in May 2008.
AWFFI is integrated into The Hunger Project's epicentre strategy - a strategy that mobilises cluster of villages to work together to meet their basic needs. To date, there are 77 epicentres encompassing more than 1,000 villages and 3 million people. > click here for more information on this visit
Model
Citizen
Perth born model Gemma Ward and father Garry are both investors in The Hunger Project. They recently visited Malawi and since their return have whipped up a frenzy of interest in the work of THP. News.com.au reports that 'THE poverty-stricken streets of Africa are a far cry from the glamorous international catwalks that 19-year-old Perth model Gemma Ward normally struts.' > click to read more
Transforming
Lives - the epicentre strategy
The epicentre strategy is a
proven, large-scale, low-cost methodology for empowering the people
of rural communities in Africa. It allows people to take
responsibility for their own development, and to succeed in meeting
their basic needs on a sustainable basis.
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Women
are the key
The Hunger Project is empowering local people to take effective, sustainable and strategic action. Addressing issues of health, education, nutrition, food production, income and the empowerment of women, this strategy is combined with initiatives which call upon leadership at all levels of society.
Ending this will achieve breakthroughs in ending hunger.
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Report >
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The Hunger
Project works to awaken the human spirit within hungry people, to
educate leaders at grassroots level, to empower those most affected
by hunger and to transform the conditions that cause hunger. At the
heart of this approach is the empowerment of women.
2006
Annual Report
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Information Booklet
Ending hunger is not only a
moral imperative, but a practical necessity. It is central to
resolving an entire raft of issues – including population growth,
civil unrest, war and environmental destruction – that increasingly
threaten the quality of life for everyone.
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