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The Problem: Imagine being so poor that you must struggle just to get enough good-quality food through the year to live a healthy, productive life. This devastating human experience is known as chronic hunger, and about one billion people live this way, including children, who are extremely vulnerable to illness made worse by malnutrition and who often die very young.
So what causes chronic hunger? You may be surprised to learn that it has little to do with food shortages. Global supplies of food far outstrip demand. Chronic hunger affects more than 800 million people in the world and it is, in and of itself, a potentially deadly condition.
Far more people die from causes related to chronic hunger than to famine. Chronically hungry people are exceptionally vulnerable when famine strikes. They have fewer resources to protect themselves and their families and are already living on the margin of survival.
Our Solution: Unlike famine or periodic hunger due to war or natural disasters, chronic hunger is a persistent and insidious condition that can affect generations of people in a geographic region. Those living with chronic hunger face a host of problems that go beyond lack of food or money.
To alleviate this condition, efforts must address root causes, be sustainable (that is, programs must pay for themselves), and they must be implemented by local people for the long term. Freedom from Hunger's Credit with Education program is just such a strategy. Freedom from Hunger and its local partners give small groups of women access to a loan and offers them a safe place to save a little money.
The loans are called â€œmicrocreditâ€ because they can be as little as $5 or as much as $300. The loans transform women into entrepreneurs who run home-based businesses, such as making food products or crafts to sell. No longer forced to scrape together whatever money they can earn, these women generate a regular income, along with a new sense of accomplishment and self-esteem.
But increasing incomes is only the beginning of this self-help process. Freedom from Hungerâ€™s Credit with Education program also provides vital education to women at their weekly meetings. As women gather to pay back their loans, they learn about health, nutrition, family planning and sound business practices. Using the additional income they earn from their businesses, the women act on this knowledge and begin to break the cycle of chronic hunger and poverty.
Women in developing countries are hardworking and eager to make life better for themselves and their families. Freedom from Hunger ensures they have the resources to do just that.
To learn more about Freedom from Hunger's programs, please go here .

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Freedom from Hunger (established in 1946) is recognized for fighting hunger with innovative self-help programs. An international development organization working in sixteen countries across the globe, Freedom from Hunger is a nonprofit, nongovernmental, nonsectarian organization classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charity. All donations to Freedom from Hunger are fully tax-deductible.

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My Blog

Vote for the June MySpace Impact Awards!

I am pleased to announce that Freedom from Hunger has been named one of three finalists for this month's MySpace Impact Awards, in the category of International Development. Please go to http://www.my...
Posted by Freedom from Hunger on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PST

We’re Still Here!

I know it's been a long time since we've updated our myspace profile, but that doesn't mean Freedom from Hunger isn't active. On the contrary, there have been a lot of exciting things going on with th...
Posted by Freedom from Hunger on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:16:00 PST

Program Spotlight: MicroBusiness for Health

Hello everyone! We're excited to let you all know about a new feature that we're tyring out on this blog called Program Spotlight. As a growing organization, Freedom from Hunger is constantly sending ...
Posted by Freedom from Hunger on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:40:00 PST

Annual Report - Program Achievements

This is the time of year when we publish the official Freedom from Hunger Annual Report, a document of great importance for sharing our progress with the world including carefully written text, stun...
Posted by Freedom from Hunger on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:31:00 PST

Freedom from Hunger Day: September 28

Thank you to everyone who participated in Freedom from Hunger Day!On September 28th, our website was devoted to raising awareness of and commemorating the self-help heroes around the world who work ti...
Posted by Freedom from Hunger on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:16:00 PST

Our Annual Report

Want to be a Freedom from Hunger volunteer?!

The following information was extracted from our website. To view this blog on the official site and to access the online sign-up form, visit: http://www.freefromhunger.org/help/volunteer.phpA lot of ...
Posted by Freedom from Hunger on Tue, 30 May 2006 03:08:00 PST

More Information About Credit with Education

How does Credit with Education work?Freedom from Hunger and its local partners give small groups of women access to a loan and offers them a safe place to save a little money. The loans are called mic...
Posted by Freedom from Hunger on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:59:00 PST

Financial Education

When most of us think of family financial education, we think of planning for retirement or learning how to set up a college fund. But for people who live on $1 per day or less, the ability to manage...
Posted by Freedom from Hunger on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:29:00 PST

Food Security Information

Not Just Food Food Security "Chronic hunger" or "food insecurity" mean that a family isn't meeting its most basic nutritional need for some or all of the year. Our goal is to help families achieve "fr...
Posted by Freedom from Hunger on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:15:00 PST