Around 2,000 children die each day from severe malnutrition and 828 million people – more than the entire population of Europe – go to bed hungry each night.
Many countries in the world are affected by poverty, lack of safe water, climate change, conflict and emergencies, poor mental health provision and gender inequality.
These factors, combined, result in malnutrition and life-threatening hunger. And while the total number of deaths from severe malnutrition has decreased over the past 40 years, any death from malnutrition is both unacceptable and avoidable.
That is why we put a huge effort into ensuring communities across the world, whatever their situation, can get the help they need. It is why we constantly challenge ourselves to find better ways to deliver that help. We are working to find new, innovative and effective treatments to reach more children to tackle increasing world hunger.
There are two big challenges. First, we must ensure everyone in need of help can get treatment. That means having health workers and clinics and all the necessary support within reach. It means being able to access life-saving treatment easily.
And hand-in-hand with this, it means seeking timely data and evidence to make the best decisions and to be able to design the best programmes that deliver the right help to the right people at the right time. We live in a world where there is enough food for all, so this can and must change. This is why Action Against Hunger is dedicated to saving lives by eliminating hunger. We are world experts in predicting, preventing and treating hunger. We strive to learn continuously, to find better ways of doing this.