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 $1,58900 $1,589.00
$1,589 helps 83 adolescent and teenage girls resist early marriage by giving them real alternatives and a chance to choose their own path.