The exhibition pays homage to the work of humanitarian workers in providing life-saving assistance in the aftermath of disasters and in helping communities recover. It also highlights the importance of preparedness, which was crucial in limiting the number of fatalities of a super typhoon such as Odette. The exhibition features images captured by EU’s humanitarian partner organizations that implemented the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations emergency response: ACCORD, Action Against Hunger, Care Philippines, Humanity & Inclusion, Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services Inc., National Rural Women’s Coalition, Oxfam Pilipinas, Plan International, Save the Children Philippines, Sentro Para sa Ikauunlad ng Katutubong Agham at Teknolohiya Inc., Community Organizers Multiversity, and United Youth of the Philippines-Women.
Ahmed Khalif, the country director for Action Against Hunger in Somalia, leads a team of 110 humanitarian workers on the ground in Somalia.
When I spoke to him, he mentioned that interactions with Somalis bring daily stories that move him to tears.
Khalif said mothers have to make heartbreaking decisions.
“You have to choose who among your children you will have to leave behind because they're weak, frail and they can no longer move.”
Global health experts are sounding the alarm. This time, it’s about the rise in measles, cholera and malaria – and their link to malnutrition. The reasons are complex and context-specific, but the outcomes are far too similar: many communities are moving backwards on public health, particularly among young children.
Elections, coups, disease outbreaks and extreme weather were some of the main events that occurred across Africa in 2022.
Problems brewed thousands of miles away — climate change and the war in Ukraine — have been devastating to the continent, say experts.
The European Unions Programme for Improved Nutrition in Sindh (PINS) was launched in 2018 by the Sindh government with the aim of lowering hunger in the province from 48 percent to 40 percent by 2021 . Sindh Health Minister Azra Fazal Pechuho praised the efforts of the EU and Action Against Hunger (AAH), as well as government officials associated with the initiative.
ROMA – Says “Action Against Hunger”, the network founded in France by Jacques Attali e Bernard-Henry Lévy, that in a Ukraine where 35 million people are estimated to live today compared to the 44 million surveyed in 2021, as many as 9.3 million are in need of food assistance. One every five. In particular in the East liberated after heavy bombing: Kharkiv, Izyum, Donbass.
I recently had the chance to moderate a panel on the documentary “The Ants and the Grasshopper” with director Raj Patel and Charles Owubah, CEO of Action Against Hunger, at a screening held at the German ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C.
For those who don’t know, the residence is one of the most impressive in town — sleek architecture and a terraced lawn with spectacular views of the nation’s capital. But it also has a secret inside: an underground space known as the Berlin Bar, where about 40 people gathered to watch the film about two Malawian women who travel to the U.S. to speak with Midwestern farmers about climate change.
Unreported World is from Kenya where tensions over food are getting deadly, as the horn of Africa suffers its worst drought in 40 years.
Reporter Seyi Rhodes travels the length of the country following herdsmen, farmers and poachers, all competing with each other to survive on a shrinking supply of fertile land.
Producer/Director: Wil Davies
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
For years, Georgia, the tiny former Soviet republic of 3.7 million people, relied on neighbouring agricultural powerhouses – Russia next door and Ukraine across the Black Sea – to feed its citizens.
But the former’s invasion of the latter has changed all that. The rising costs of food, rent, and basic services – combined with changing weather patterns due to climate change – are exposing structural weaknesses in the country’s food systems.
