Monthly Archives: April 2019
Meet Luz Tamara, the school janitor who saves lives
Photo: Lys Arango for Action Against Hunger. Luz Tamara Angulo was cleaning toilets in the Mi Pequeño Sol de Lima school when she heard screams coming from the classroom. She ran toward the noise and found a five-year-old boy named Thiago on the floor. As his teacher watched in panic, Thiago was having a series […]
New guidelines to enhance food insecurity and malnutrition analysis including in areas with no humanitarian access
Photo: Lys Arango for Action Against Hunger, South Sudan. Rome, Italy, 25 April 2019 – New global guidelines published by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) today will further hone food security and nutrition analysis processes for better and more actionable information during humanitarian crises. After thorough consultations, food security and nutrition experts […]
Meet Ibrahim, Our Health Worker Supervisor
This is Ibrahim Sangare. For four years, he has been supervising community health workers in the Kita region of Mali. He visits remote, hard-to-reach villages, where health workers have been trained by Action Against Hunger to spot and treat malnutrition. Challenges to healthcare access in remote communities Some villages in the Kita region are […]
Joint Humanitarian Civil Society Statement on Canada’s Policy for Gender Equality in Humanitarian Action
On April 13, 2019, Canada introduced its new policy on gender equality in humanitarian action. The following is a joint response by Canadian civil society organizations active in humanitarian response, welcoming the new policy and looking forward to its implementation. As Canadian humanitarian agencies working to save lives, uphold human rights, and empower people, particularly […]
Update on our Cyclone Idai response
Photo: Distribution of Water in Beira, Mozambique. Photo by Guillaume Matthieu. Cyclone Idai’s lingering effects Cyclone Idai has passed, but its impact is far from over. Mozambique has been devastated by the cyclone and now faces the added pressure of a cholera epidemic. Zimbabwe was also hit hard by Cyclone Idai and has been […]
After Cyclone Idai, Mozambique faces a new emergency: cholera
Cyclone survivors in Mozambique collect water Damage from Cyclone Idai Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique last month. The catastrophic flooding has impacted all three countries, but Mozambique has taken the brunt of the devastation. According to the latest numbers from the Government of Mozambique, 1,000 people have lost their lives, 146,000 people […]