5.5 million children died last year because of malnutrition.

That’s 15,000 little boys and girls a day -- precious children whose lives were lost simply because they didn’t get enough nutritious food to eat.

Malnutrition is the #1 killer of children - particularly small children under five whose strength and resistance are limited.   Referred to as "the invisible emergency" because its deadly effects are often not apparent until the damage is already done, malnutrition killed 5.5 million children last year and retarded the physical and mental development of millions of others, cutting off their hope for a more productive future. 

Children’s Hunger Relief Fund provides millions of life-saving meals to hungry children every year. Some of this aid is in the form of short-term disaster relief. We also support a number of ongoing feeding programs through our numerous children’s homes. Other strategies are more long-term – for example, food gardens, sustainable agriculture projects and micro-enterprise programs.

Our goal is to pursue a grass roots strategy to solving hunger. All of our ongoing feeding programs are run by local community leaders. We don’t want to “feed and run” – we want to “feed and build,” thereby strengthening local capacity to provide for their own future development.