Nearly 735 million people are still suffering from hunger today. 148 million children under the age of five suffer from stunted growth, and 45 million from acute malnutrition.
While malnutrition affects more than half the population, climate change is an additional threat to the food security of the most vulnerable populations. Droughts, floods and extreme weather events have a direct impact on communities.
However, effective treatments do exist. Action Against Hunger provides women and children with health and nutrition services in order to break the intergenerational vicious circle of undernourishment.
Action Against Hunger pays focuses on training local workers, in order to ensure the autonomy of the missions in the caring and treating malnutrition at a national level. We also take into account the quality and nature of the care provided to children within the family and the community. Our programmes therefore include strengthening childcare practices and the parent-child relationship, thereby bringing about the child’s physical and mental fulfilment.
Understanding the root causes of each crisis leading to malnutrition is vital when designing and implementing an effective feeding programme. Action Against Hunger draws on the full range of its technical expertise in nutrition and health, food security, and drinking water and sanitation, to analyse each situation as effectively as possible and help patients return to good health.
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