Thank you for helping us create lasting impact

Your donation to the Big Impact Appeal in 2019 helped us fight global hunger by providing immediate humanitarian relief and livelihood assistance to people who needed it the most.

Thank you for helping us create lasting impact

Your donation to the Big Impact Appeal in 2019 helped us fight global hunger by providing immediate humanitarian relief and livelihood assistance to people who needed it the most.

Your support is making a difference

Here are some of the ways you’ve helped break the cycle of poverty

383,509

children received nutritional support through regular school meals

Children receiving nutritional meals at school

Schools in South Sudan, Sudan, Jordan and DR Congo were assisted by our school feeding program.

Displaced children who could continue their education in these schools were provided with healthy, nutritious meals to encourage them to attend school and provide them with the much-needed energy to focus on their education. Parents also benefited from the employment opportunities provided by the program.

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1,283,675

people benefited from the convenience of cash and voucher transfers

Vulnerable families receive cash or vouchers to purchase vital food items

Cash or voucher transfers gave vulnerable families the ability to purchase vital food items or even support their children’s education.

Instead of simply receiving handouts and being treated as aid recipients these families find dignity in being able to conveniently purchase food of their choice from registered stores. The cash and voucher transfer system is also improving the local economy by supporting local sellers/traders.

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Together we reached more than 5.2 million people in 16 countries

Rahazan can now choose and purchase food for her family

Now I can choose and purchase our food in 25 minutes … [My children] don’t go to bed hungry anymore. We have proper meals twice a day with the vegetables I purchase from the e-voucher store.

– Rahazan, Rohingya refugee and mother of seven in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh


33,406

tonnes of emergency food such as rice, wheat, beans and cooking oil were distributed among communities suffering from severe food shortages and hunger.

114,000

displaced people by the effects of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique and Zimbabwe were reached with emergency aid to help them recover from the disaster.

38,860

people in countries like Burundi and Sudan were provided with training and financial support that enabled them to achieve food security and end the cycle of poverty. 

400,000

Syrian refugees who fled from their war-torn country to Jordan and Lebanon were provided with humanitarian aid and support. 

Makka, with a variety of food items for herself and her family

Now we have variety of food items we can buy, and I can decide what I want for my family. I have the option of serving my children rice, lentils or pasta.

– Makka, a displaced mother of six children in Otash Camp in South Darfur