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Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over nearly three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity.
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Central to the targeting of malnutrition, Action Against Hunger extends water and sanitation improvements to communities with little or no access to proper sources.
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Action Against Hunger's programs are sustainable because of our commitment to community participation—to build local capacity and harnesses a population's energy and resources.
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Though strategies may vary, our food security interventions all share a common goal: to fight hunger by preserving and strengthening livelihoods in a sustainable and contextual manner.
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Action Against Hunger’s innovative food security programs offer a broad range of solutions for generating income, boosting food production, and strengthening livelihoods.
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Our comprehensive approach to hunger involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation.
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Action Against Hunger occupies a unique place among international organizations: our expertise encompasses emergency relief, longer-term development, and the terrain in between.
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We have developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory committee.
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Action Against Hunger helps rehabilitate and restock public health infrastructure, fields mobile health clinics, and trains local medical personnel on preventative and diagnostic care.
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Our comprehensive programs address the linkages between disease and malnutrition by coordinating with local expertise and strengthening existing public health systems.
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Press Release for 2003

Action Against Hunger warns of poor food security in Mongolia

Ulan-Bator, Mongolia, December 23, 2003 - Since the overnight
transition from a command economy to a market economy at the end of the 1990s,

Action Against Hunger To Open NASDAQ Market

Alexis Azria, member of Action Against Hunger USA's Board of Directors, will join host Jeff Singer, Regional Vice President of NASDAQ, to preside over the Market Open.

Food Security Assessment Points to Insecurity in Uganda

An overview of the food security situation among the 416,000 Internally Displaced Peoples in the war affected district of Gulu, northern Uganda.

Action Against Hunger USA has just carried out a

ACF Denounces Human Rights Violations in Congo

Kinshasa, October 21, 2003 - Action Against Hunger
reports an increase in human rights violations associated with the return of FAC

Nutritional Crisis in D.R. Congo: Nutritional Situation Critical in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

While international media attention is focused on the after effects of the
war in Iraq, forgotten humanitarian crises continue in areas of nominal peace,

ACF Launches U.S. Campaign on Freshwater: "March for Water" Takes Place in Manhattan, New York

April 22, 2003 New York City - Action Against Hunger, internationally recognized for its leadership in providing therapeutic feeding and water in emergency situations, h

Obstacles to Humanitarian Action in Congo

April 3, 2003 Shabunda, Eastern Democratic Republic Congo
(DRC)
- While international media attention is focused on the war in