It’s 7 p.m. when an evening newscaster announces that a storm is brewing. It’s a big one. The weather updates say that it’s due to make landfall within 48 hours. When it does, the impact is devastating. While houses are destroyed and cities sit underwater, people flee their… Read More
Ending Poverty Together
Let's Stay UNITED
For the first time ever, Food for the Hungry united in August with World Vision and Compassion International to bond the Christian community through a concert event. The star-studded lineup benefited children and families worldwide who are most vulnerable to the aftershocks… Read More
Ending Poverty Together
Return to School Looks Different in 2020
Return to school brings many mixed emotions. There is often excitement for the new school year ahead or sadness that summer is coming to a close. But this year, uncertainty looms as the return to school looks different than it has in year’s past. Many of the same challenges we… Read More
Child Sponsorship
Letter writing. Do people even write letters anymore? Well, as a former Food for the Hunger Correspondence Representative, I can tell you that people do write letters. SO many letters! In fact, FH processed over 600,000 letters between sponsors and sponsored children in 2019. What is so great about these… Read More
Child Sponsorship
Watch the Impact of Child Sponsorship — A Story of Two Families
Sponsorship’s Impact on Child and Sponsor Have you considered the relational impact of child sponsorship on both the child and the sponsor? At Food for the Hungry (FH), we believe the life-changing impact of child sponsorship goes both ways! Sponsorship is an act of faith. When you sponsor… Read More
Child Sponsorship
Can you imagine a world where no one is poor? If there was no physical poverty, and no children suffered from stunted growth due to hunger. People would not beg on street corners, soup kitchens would cease to exist, and no nation would be labeled as a “impoverished”… Read More
Faith
Photo Essay: Rohingya Refugees Commemorating Three Years
This August, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees will mark the month they fled from violence and oppression in Myanmar to safety in Bangladesh. It’s been three years now since they made the desperate trek, fearing for their lives. While they no longer run from bullets and threats… Read More
Featured
Hope The Size of a Vegetable Seed
“A seed neither fears light nor darkness, but uses both to grow.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo Between natural disasters, food shortages, and the widespread pandemic, a lot of families are currently struggling to provide their families with enough food, let alone proper nutrition. Did you know at least half of… Read More
Ending Poverty Together
In a mountain town in northern Vietnam, Food for the Hungry (FH) is helping children get to school safely — with swimming lessons. Hung is a 12-year-old boy from a community in Thai Nguyen province. He’s one of many students for whom the walk to school… Read More
Child Sponsorship
Update: How You Changed A Life with One Goat
Back in 2016, we shared a story about a teen named Alice from Uganda, whose life changed when she received a goat from Food for the Hungry (FH). At the time, by Alice’s own admission, “Life in general [was not] smooth on… Read More
Child Sponsorship
Do you remember the last time you joined with friends or family to compete in a game or contest? Maybe you teamed up and won. Or maybe you were on the losing side, but you enjoyed every second of the competition. Competitive games and sports are… Read More