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Work with us towards a future without hunger

28 April 2022
26913 - Martha in Sierra Leone

Martha in Sierra Leone holds up a cassava. Despite her small farm, she often struggles to give her two children enough food to eat.

We believe that a future where nobody goes hungry is possible, and with your help we can make this hope a reality.

We can dream of a future without hunger, but this is only reasonable when we engage in tangible processes, vital relations, effective plans and real commitments.

Pope Francis, World Food Day 2018

Three important ways to ensure a future without hunger

1. Provide urgent, practical help for food emergencies

Families in Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia and South Sudan are facing extreme hunger right now as rising food prices make a desperate situation worse.

Working as part of the global Caritas network of Catholic international aid agencies, our local Church aid workers are already on the front line, getting emergency food supplies and clean water to vulnerable families in need.

For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat ... in so far as you did this to one of the least of my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.

Matthew 25:35, 40

2. Give support to farming communities working to end hunger for good

800 million people go hungry each day and the majority of them are those who grow the world’s food. Through our network of global experts we’re helping farming families in over 30 countries fight the daily threat of hunger so they can thrive.

Zimbabwe

We first met Fiona in 2017 when she didn’t have enough feed her family. In the driest months sometimes they’d have no more than a handful of food each.

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The donations that helped Fiona and her community were matched by the UK government

How you can help

World Food Crisis Appeal

Millions of families are facing a food crisis that could be worse than any we’ve lived through.

Fix the food system

The global food system is broken. It doesn’t work for those who work the hardest – small farmers – and it’s a major driver of the climate emergency.