Toronto, ON – May 18, 2018: Grade 5 students from Burrows Hall Junior Public School will be protesting for their right to nutritious food outside the Scarborough Civic Centre on Friday, May 25th by taking part in a ‘plant-in’ flash mob. More than 30 students will come together at 10 am to plant vegetables […]

Photo: Lys Arango for Action Against Hunger, Colombia. Gladis Nidey Pérez is a community leader of a women’s association where Action Against Hunger has helped with the planting of a garden. The project is part of our food security and livelihoods program there, where the produce they grow will not only allow them access to nutritious […]

  Thanks to Canada’s commitment to development efforts in Afghanistan, Action Against Hunger will continue to ensure improved nutrition, especially among children and young mothers in the country. With support from Global Affairs Canada, the project – Nutrition to Prevent Mother and Child Mortality and Morbidity in Afghanistan – will contribute to reduced malnutrition among […]

Photo: Carmen Oliveira, Burrows Hall Public School. Elementary students gardening as a part of our project, Generation Nutrition.   As Canada has urbanized over the past couple generations, we’ve moved further away from food production — or any significant hands-on knowledge of it. One result of this: more than a quarter of Canadian children are overweight or […]

Photo: Guy Calaf for Action Against Hunger Nigeria. Announcement from Global Affairs Canada April 10, 2018 – Yaoundé, Cameroon – Global Affairs Canada On behalf of the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, Matt DeCourcey, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced over $27 million in funding to […]