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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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Nurse-Nutritionists Urgently Needed in Sudan
Action Against Hunger seeks 15 nurse-nutritionists to face the current crisis in Darfur
June 30, 2004

To address the growing needs of the Darfur population, Action Against Hunger is reinforcing its local programs. The organization urgently needs volunteer nurse-nutritionists (with at least 2 years in similar programs) to leave as soon as possible for the Darfur region:

  • To establish and supervise therapeutic feeding centers (treating acute malnutrition): to recruit, train and supervise the centers' staff, monitor compliance with nutritional and medical protocols, intensify training sessions in collaboration with supplementary feeding centers, provide logistical follow-up, and analyze data and prepare reports relating to the nutritional situation.
  • To establish and supervise supplementary feeding centers (treating moderate malnutrition): to improve the diagnosis and treatment of moderate malnutrition, manage the local team and organize its tasks, train the local center's staff as well as the team providing treatment at patients' homes, and analyze data and prepare reports relating to the nutritional situation.
  • To carry out nutritional surveys: to set up a permanent team of pollsters, conduct nutritional surveys in Darfur, train other participants in the methodology of nutritional surveys, and keep the local authorities and the other NGOs informed on a regular basis of Action Against Hunger's activities relating to the nutritional situation in Darfur.

In addition to a nursing degree, applicants must be strongly motivated and show successful prior experience of at least 2 years. Fluency in English, a strong ability to adapt and function in stressful situations, and a spirit of solidarity are also prerequisites. A specialization in the field of nutrition is a plus. The positions are for 3 months to 1 year, and are renewable.

Action Against Hunger is also seeking medical doctors, logisticians and administrators with prior experience in an international solidarity organization.

About Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF), an international relief and development organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and families, provides sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger. For nearly three decades, ACF has pursued its vision of a world without hunger by combating hunger in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity.

Press Contact

Action Against Hunger - USA

James L. Phelan
Senior External Relations Officer, ACF-USA
Contact James Phelan
Direct: 212-967-7800 x108
Cell: 646-265-7796