Freedom From Hunger
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Founded in 1946, Freedom from Hunger is a nonprofit, international development organization that brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty.
Mission
Credit with Education is Freedom from Hunger's worldwide strategy to bring self-help solutions to the fight against hunger. Combining microcredit loans to very poor women with vital health and business education has become recognized as a powerful and proven approach to helping families become food-secure.
Program
Credit with Education is Freedom from Hunger's worldwide strategy to bring self-help solutions to the fight against hunger -- one family at a time. We launched the first Credit with Education program in 1988 in West Africa. What was then a bold new strategy—combining microcredit loans to very poor women with vital health and business education—has become recognized as a powerful and proven approach to helping families become food-secure.
Impact
Credit with Education is Freedom from Hunger's worldwide strategy to bring self-help solutions to the fight against hunger -- one family at a time. We launched the first Credit with Education program in 1988 in West Africa. What was then a bold new strategy—combining microcredit loans to very poor women with vital health and business education—has become recognized as a powerful and proven approach to helping families become food-secure.
Goals
Reach for Three Million by 2010
CEO
Christopher Dunford, Ph.D.
Countries
Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Peru, Philippines
Contact
1644 DaVinci Court
Davis, CA 95618
Phone: (800) 708-2555
www.freedomfromhunger.org
EIN: 95-1647835
Regular price $15000 $150.00
Your gift will equip women like Francisca with all they need to catch fish every day for their families. She also receives the business education to turn her fishing skills into a self-sufficient, small business for her community.
Regular price $1,85300 $1,853.00
$1,853 helps finance a woman’s business the right way.
Regular price $2,91900 $2,919.00
$2,919 helps mothers give the ultimate gift to their daughters--an education and a future.
Regular price $60000 $600.00
$600 provides food security for families in Mali and 15 other countries--every day.
Regular price $36000 $360.00
$360 empowers 378 mothers like Raimuni with the knowledge and social support they need to guide their daughters to a better future.
Regular price $15300 $153.00
$153 provides women just like Lisa with the education they need to save their children's lives.
Regular price $10600 $106.00
$106 provides Fatima and so many more women like her the financial support they need to change their families' lives for good.
Regular price $6500 $65.00
$65 ensures that women like Fatoumata can fight off this Silent Disaster in villages across West Africa.
Regular price $2600 $26.00
$26 helps women like Efua participate in Credit with Education and set aside savings to secure their children's future.