Over 1 billion people
– one-sixth of the world’s population – suffer from hunger and
malnutrition and long term solutions are needed if we are to ensure
the basic human right of freedom from hunger for all people.
To learn how to make a
personal commitment to ending hunger, you might contact the
following organizations:
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America’s Second
Harvest
www.secondharvest.org
35 E. Wacker Dr., #2000
Chicago, IL 60601
1-800-771-2303
(312) 263-2303
This is the largest
domestic hunger relief organization in the United States. Through
a network of over 200 food banks and food=rescue programs, they
provide emergency food assistance to more than 23 million hungry
Americans each year, of whom 8 million are children.
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Food Research and
Action Center
1875 Connecticut Ave.,
NW
Suite 540
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 986-2200
This nonprofit,
nonpartisan center works with individuals, elected officials,
religious groups, and civic leaders to improved federal food
programs, to seek greater opportunities for low-income people, and
to protect the rights of the poor. |
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The Hunger Site
www.thehungersite.com
One Union Square
600 University Street,
Suite 1000
Seattle, WA 98101-4107
(206) 268-5400
On average more than
220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day
to click the “give free food” button and help feed the hungry.
Founded in June 19999, The Hunger site was the first online
activism site on the Web. To date more than 101 million visitors
have given more than 198 cups of staple food. (Clicking the “free
food button” on this site provides the hungry with a value of 1.1
cups of staple foods provided by the listed daily sponsors of the
Web site.)
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If you would like
a link to your organization listed here, please e-mail us at
info@apositiveimpact.org. |
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. |
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