What is the Global Food Crisis appeal?

The appeal supports activities like:

• Distributing emergency aid like food, water, medicine and household supplies. World Vision also undertakes nutritional feeding for malnourished babies and their mothers, and pregnant women.
• Helping families rehabilitate their lives, businesses and farms. World Vision provides seeds adapted to local soil and climate conditions, as well as tools and agricultural training. We also train farmers in sustainable farming, re-vegetation, and the planting of fruit and forest trees.
• Disaster mitigation programs and long-term resilience and sustainability projects.
• Advocacy projects that work with local charities, businesses and governments to help rehabilitate communities and bring about policy changes that help those affected by the Global Food Crisis.

Examples of how your support can help...

• $135 can help provide emergency food for three children under five, and pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.
• $60 can help provide lifesaving health, hygiene, nutrition and immunisation awareness, and care for six malnourished children and their mothers.
• $78 can help provide climate-appropriate seeds, tools and agricultural training to help six farmers grow lifesaving food for their families.

Please note that World Vision’s programs vary between countries and depending on the situation.
Find out more about the causes and effects of the Global Food Crisis.

Who does the Global Food Crisis appeal help? 

Children and communities facing starvation in the Horn of Africa: There are millions of people suffering drastic food shortages in the Horn of Africa, with Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia severely affected.

• Story: A mother's torment

Children and communities facing starvation in Africa: Twenty of the 32 countries currently classified by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as ‘worst-affected’ are in Africa.

• Story: Food for thought: food distribution in northern Uganda 

Children and communities facing starvation in Asia and the Pacific: In the Asia Pacific region, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has identified Afghanistan, North Korea, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Timor-Leste as facing severe food insecurity.

• Story: Food costs bite in Asia  
• Story: Food for Work programs unite communities in Laos

Children and communities facing starvation in the Middle East: Conflict and harsh environmental conditions have created a food crisis in Iraq, Iran, the Gaza Strip, Yemen and the Syrian Arab Republic.

While in Latin America and the Caribbean, staple food price rises (Columbia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru) and drought, floods and hurricanes (Haiti, Cuba, Argentina and others) have led to endemic food insecurity and increased malnutrition among the poorest people.

• Story: Where is it happening?

What will you receive?

World Vision News magazine
World Vision News magazine covers the progress made by the Global Food Crisis Appeal and provides updates on World Vision's work around the world.

Help children and communities suffering from the effects of the Global Food Crisis
When you support the Global Food Crisis Appeal, you can be sure you’re helping fight extreme hunger and provide ongoing assistance for those affected by the Global Food Crisis.