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Action Against Hunger and Food Deprivation
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2. Hunger Statistics
0 The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that
there are about 4.6 billion people who are not well –
fed (2/3 of the world Under-Fed & Starving)
0 One in twelve people worldwide are malnourished.
0 Malnutrition is the cause of more than half of all child
deaths worldwide.
0 15 million children die of hunger every year.
0 Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger around the
world, and every 5 seconds a child dies of hunger.
3. Total of 925 Million hungry people in
the world, 2010
Number of Hungry people from 1969
to 2008, and a projection from 2009-
2010
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5. ACF International
0 Non-profit Humanitarian Organization
0 Motto: Providing innovative solutions to world hunger
0 French name: Action Contre la Faim
0 Abbreviation: ACF
0 Has headquarters in 5 countries:
France, Spain, USA, Canada and UK.
0 Served approximately 5,000,000 people in 40 countries
6. ACF International
0 Short-Term Goals: 0 Long-Term Goals:
-Address hunger and -Provide Training in
malnutrition. nutrition, water, food, securit
y, healthcare, and sanitation.
0 Principles:
-Independence
-Impartiality
-Non-discrimination
-Free, direct access to victims
-Professionalism
7. History Of Their Venture
0 Established in 1979 by a group of French
Doctors, Scientists and Writers
0 First aim: Provide assistance to Afghan and
Cambodian refugees in Thailand, and Ugandan
communities
0 Expanded to address Humanitarian concerns
8. History Of Their Venture
0 ACF Pioneered theraputic milk formula
(aka F100), used to treat acute malnutrition
0 Decreased mortality rate of severely malnourished
children from 25% to 5% in the world
0 500,000 people received help from
ACF across the Horn of Africa
9. Impact of Their Venture
0 Served more than 5,000,000 people in approximately
40 different countries
0 Horn Of Africa
0 215 Tons of food delivered to 12,500 Somalis in August
2011.
0 10,000 malnourished Kenyan children treated by ACF
as of July 2011.
10. Impact in 2010
290,000 Pakistanis Benefited from
Emergency Water & Sanitation Programs
300,000 Haitians Benefited from
After floods swept over Pakistan, destroying Daily Access to Clean Water
vital infrastructure and leaving millions at risk After the devastating 7.0 Magnitude
of water-borne illnesses like cholera and earthquake struck Haiti, Action Against Hunger
diarrhoea, Action Against Hunger provided was one of the first organizations to provide
displaced Pakistanis with access to clean water immediate access to clean drinking water for
and emergency sanitation. survivors in Port-au-Prince, scaling up
emergency water and sanitation programs in
response to the recent cholera outbreak.