February Master Charity Reports

Action Against Hunger

by Jessica B.

The charity I chose was Action Against Hunger. What they do is fight malnutrition by providing food, water, and food security to people around the world who are suffering from malnutrition. The way they help prevent malnutrition is by trying to discover the root cause of a malnutrition outbreak, then treating it accordingly. They also provide ready-to-use therapeutic foods to help prevent malnutrition from occurring.

Action Against Hunger also helps impact food security for the better. When a disaster occurs that destroys infrastructure and food supplies, Action Against Hunger provides food, cash, and and other stuff to prevent hunger in the short term and make sure that crops can be replanted in the future.

They make sure that people have clean water as well, by drilling and decontaminating wells, installing hand pumps, protecting natural springs, tapping aquifers, and piping water into hard-to-reach villages and health centers. They also promote sanitation and hygiene by distributing hygiene kits and building hand washing stations.

They have helped a lot of people. In 2014 alone, they have helped a total of 13.5 million people.

Action Against Hunger gets their funding through donations. I wouldn't donate to them, because I don't have any money. If I did have money though, it would be a very worthwhile charity to donate to.

Benson Food

by Hannah Anderson

What do they do?

Benson Food supports community efforts to improve the health and well-being of families through projects in food production, food storage, and nutrition training. They leverage local resources to meet challenges in food security. They partner with organizations to help communities as a whole. They help with planning and growing gardens, food storage, and nutrition training.

Who do they serve?

Families, communities and people who need to improve nutritional production. Families and communities can increase their food security by using sustainable practices such as gardening and animal production. Beneficiaries use their local resources to learn methods that are most effective and appropriate to their environment. As a result, they learn practices that are both sustainable and effective.

How do they get their funding?

LDS church and donations

Would you donate to this charity?

Yes.

Why?

Because it’s important for us to learn how to balance meals and plant gardens. It’s very important for us to have food storage, and I think this is a worthy cause.




Note from Sis. Cloward: I also have an report from Emma Skinner.  I'll type it and post it when I get home from Boston.  If anyone else would like theirs posted, you can still email me.  :)