GLOBAL INNOVATION through entrepreneurial solutions
When organizations like Rise Against HungerÂŽ find creative ways to mobilize every sector of society, government, business, NGOs and the public, together, we become a force for good. The innovative entrepreneurial social change programs described in this brochure complement our strategic Pathways to End Hunger and highlight innovative Rise Against Hunger programs that are transforming societies at large by leveraging local resources with meaningful action to solve pressing problems, all while creating sustainable impact and life-changing transformation in hundreds of communities across the globe. TM
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Provide primary care services Reach to 40,000 patients
Affordable Healthcare on Wheels
56% (25,000) of total patient force are women
Availing affordable health facilities in the remote villages and regions of India have always been a challenge. Due to geographical barriers and the ever-present socio-economic disparity, medical support to these regions are scarce, limited and rather ineffective. Several reports show that a large portion of populations in the villages are in a debt trap because of rising health costs. Furthermore, there is a lack of awareness among the people about ailments they face. In collaboration with Society for Action in Community Health (SACH), Rise Against Hunger India established an initiative in 2015 to provide affordable healthcare to the remote regions in Banka District of Bihar and Prakasam District in Andhra Pradesh. Under the project, we stationed two Mobile Health Units (MHUs) each catering to the health care needs of more than 20 villages at both sites. The MHUs successfully reduced financial, geographic and psychological barriers to health care for people located at remote regions.
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The MHUs are fully equipped to provide primary care services, including acute, episodic, and preventive care. Since the time of its inception, MHUs have been able to reach 40,000 patients, out of which 25,000 are women.
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Jalseva: Safe Fluoride-Free Drinking Water for Western Odisha Rise Against Hunger India in collaboration with a local NGO, Ahinsa Club, has established “Project Jalseva,� which caters and provides solutions to the needs of the villagers experiencing issues of water scarcity and health hazards from fluoride poisoning and contaminated water. The Project set out to ensure access to safe and potable drinking water for 4,517 families from 20 villages in three blocks of the Balangir and Bargarh districts during the peak summer months, i.e., April to July. The teams on ground have deployed water counters at critical road points to enable the community around the villages to access drinking water. These counters are monitored by a water committee set up within the Project to ensure that there is proper maintenance, testing and treatment of water and proper utilization of the available water resources. Ahinsa Club and Rise Against Hunger India also distribute water filters to mitigate the effect of fluoride poisoning.
India : Jalseva: Safe Fluoride-Free Drinking Water for Western Odisha
The team is also working to create a water reservoir called The Chahala, which in the long run, will be a sustainable solution in providing clean, fluoridefree drinking water to these communities and has plans to expand these services to more than 535 families in Jamutbahal, Jadamunda and Bhanjanagar.
Sustainable water reservoir creation 20 villages 4,517 families
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Increased crop yields and production Improved community nutrition and health Increased income for 100 farmers and their families
Moringa Farming Project To increase incomes and food access in northeastern India, Rise Against Hunger has teamed up with a local non-profit organization, Jaiprabha Mahila Vikas Kendra, and Rise Against Hunger India to introduce farmers to a new crop, moringa. Moringa can be harvested every 45 days and generates more consistent income compared to rice and wheat. Additionally, moringa boasts a vast nutritional content. By training farmers to grow moringa, we aim to increase the per-acre income for 100 farmers and their families and increase return on livestock by promoting goat rearing based on moringa feed.
India : Moringa Farming Project
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“In addition to rice and wheat, I also grow vegetables in a local garden for my family and have a smallscale business where I sell firewood. With additional profits from farming moringa, I would like to expand my farm, [farm] more land and purchase livestock.” – Wakil, Farmer
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Supports workforce reintegration Provides relief for EU immigrants and refugees Partnership between Kraft Heinz, Rise Against Hunger Italy
Gift in Kind Partnership Program Many people in need of international protection are coming to the EU to seek asylum. Protection is given to people fleeing their home countries who cannot return due to a well-founded fear of persecution or risk of suffering serious harm. The EU has a legal and moral obligation to protect those in need. EU Member States are responsible for examining asylum applications and for deciding who will receive protection. Areas of impact aid include Syrian refugees in Athens and Northern African refugees at reception camps.
Italy : Gift in Kind Partnership Program
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Rise Against Hunger Italia, jointly with Kraft Heinz, has partnered to donate pallets of baby food as a gift in kind.
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3.1 million meals packaged Events in 11 countries
Corporate Social Responsibility through Meal Packaging Events
Rise Against Hunger Malaysia provides corporations with a turnkey, hands-on and powerful volunteer event that connects their mission to a larger purpose. With increased interest in corporations engaging their workforces to give back to their local communities as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, large and small organizations choose to partner with Rise Against Hunger Malaysia throughout Asia and Oceania by sponsoring Meal Packaging Events. With these valued corporate partners and volunteers, in 2017 alone, Rise Against Hunger Malaysia provided more than 3.1 million meals to people in need across the world.
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Consumer action based donations Nutritious bread for school feeding Partnership between Conrad Manila, Kraft Heinz, Rise Against Hunger Philippines
The Bread for Bread Project is envisioned as a sustainable bread distribution program enabling consumers to purchase nutritious bread, and at the same time, donate equivalent pieces of nutritious bread for school feeding programs. The nutritious bread or Nutripan (Nutritious Pandesal) will be Philippines' own version of the Nutriban. Pandesal is a popular yeastraised bread in the country. The Nutripan is baked and sold at Rise Against Hunger outlets, Conrad ManilaÂŽ properties and other NGOs through the Bread4Bread Program, which donates a loaf of bread for every loaf sold to support various feeding programs in the country.
Philippines : Bread4Bread
Future plans include marketing the product to retail stores, leveraging the Bread4Bread donation strategy.
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Expanded local economic base Improved food quality and costs Improved health, nutrition and food security
The Good Food Farm is an organic community farm dedicated to alleviate hunger through sustainable agriculture. Jointly with government entities, the program aims to grow and provide organic produce for local food pantries and experiential education for the community about sustainable agriculture practices, healthy eating and food justice. The Good Food Farm was envisioned as an urban demonstration farming project that will improve food security, address hunger and reduce malnutrition by transforming underutilized city-owned land, while broadening the local economy through the creation of new jobs, micro-enterprise projects and local community business education strategies.
Philippines : Good Food Farm
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Improved food security and waste reduction Supports local social and micro enterprises Promotes increases in community incomes
Food banking is already a proven strategy to address hunger and food wastage in many countries. While food banks already exist as food security measures in many developed and developing regions around the world, the concept is new to the Philippines. The Good Food Grocer (GFG) is the first food bank social franchise in the Philippines. It works on the premise that “Good Food is for all.� It follows an integrated approach by combining groceries, soup kitchen, microenterprise, community organic gardens and nutrition classes.
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The Good Food Grocer is operated by Rise Against Hunger Philippines in cooperation with private and public organizations. Donations of nutritious food that are nearing expiration or “best before” dates are sourced from food manufacturers and retailers. Items are purchased at discounted prices. Restaurants and hotels also donate excess food (not leftovers) that can be processed into nutritious meals and distributed for free to feeding programs. Additionally, retail stores whose product wasn’t sold at the end of the day gets donated to our food pantries. The GFG also serves as distribution point for Rise Against Hunger meal bags, currently providing at least 2,000 meals daily in neighboring communities.
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Provide livelihood opportunities Increase incomes of community mothers Reduce used soap waste Promote good hygiene practices
Established in 2013, the “Soap for Hope™” program is a Corporate Social Responsibility project of Sealed Air Diversey™, a leading global company in food security, facility hygiene and product protection. Together with their partner hotels and NGOs like Rise Against Hunger Philippines, the project was launched in developing countries through teaching at-risk communities to salvage the hotels’ soap slivers and turn them into new bars of soap. The Soap for Hope program focuses on three core objectives: saving lives by enabling hygiene through providing access to soap to communities, providing livelihood to the local community through recycling, and reprocessing soap and helping hotels reduce waste by turning soap into something useful.
Philippines : Soap for Hope
To build more sustainable communities, Rise Against Hunger Philippines, in partnership with Conrad Manila®, a leading hotel customer of Sealed Air Diversey in the country, has adopted the Soap for Hope program. This collaboration directly contributes to Rise Against Hunger’s Impact, by strengthening livelihood capacities and diversification of family income of the communities we serve.
Rise Against Hunger Philippines, through its Good Food Grocer, orders soap bars in bulk from these group of soap makers/mothers. These soap bars together with other food and non-food items are being sold at market prices in the grocer.
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SEVEN participating universities DECREASE in failure rates due to hunger
The University Student Meal Support Program Universities in South Africa are increasingly burdened by students from previously disadvantaged communities who have received education sponsorship but little else to support their journey through tertiary education. Most of them attribute 40% of failure of students in the first year to hunger.
Rise Against Hunger Africa joined forces with two reputable Johannesburg Universities to provide meal assistance to vulnerable students they had identified in order to improve the pass rate at these institutions. Each of them had established food banks that Rise Against Hunger Africa supports in order to provide proper nutrition. The food bank is managed by the Student Well-being Department and identifies vulnerable students.
Rise Against Hunger Africa also assists universities in setting up their food banks and educates staff and students on best practices and distribution techniques to ensure success of the program.
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Supports teacher training and salaries
ECDC Connect Program
Promotes government registration and grants
As part of our efforts to provide nourishing meals to children in school feeding programs, Rise Against Hunger Africa delivers meals to over 300 Early Childhood Development 300 early Centers (ECDC) throughout South Africa. The childhood centers ECDC Connect Program is an outcomes based program that is sustainable and scalable. Our program transforms unregistered centers by upgrading building infrastructures, meeting safety standards, providing meal programs, school supplies, education equipment and teacher training to ensure each center has a fully licensed education program in place. With meals being provided through an ECDC Connect program with Rise Against Hunger, the money typically provided for school meals can now be spent on teacher salaries, thus retaining the trained teachers. The balance of the school fees collected can also be used on the maintenance of each facility. Through the generous sponsorship support of partners, Rise Against Hunger Africa continues to expand safe classroom building, plumbing, kitchen equipment and security equipment for these childhood centers.
South Africa : ECDC Connect Program
Rise Against Hunger Africa conducts monthly monitoring and evaluation on all the facilities we are involved with, and provide comprehensive feedback and reports to our sponsors and donors.
Most importantly with our partnership with sponsors, the ECDs and the local government, we set up these selected EDCDs to become fully registered in the government grant program.
To date, Rise Against Hunger South Africa has supported the successful registration of 27 creches.
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Pathways to End Hunger To end hunger by 2030, aligned with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goal #2 of Zero Hunger, Rise Against Hunger works in four focus areas known as our Pathways to End Hunger: Nourishing Lives, Empowering Communities, Responding to Emergencies and Growing the Movement. Through these Pathways, we seek to provide immediate nourishment for those in need today, while implementing sustainable solutions to hunger for tomorrow — solutions that will lift entire communities for years to come.
NOURISHING LIVES
We nourish lives by meeting the most basic and immediate needs of vulnerable people around the globe and supporting safety net programs that provide nourishment and skills training to support the difficult journey out of poverty. Our meals are distributed in partnership with local organizations like schools, encouraging increased enrollment and attendance for young students — especially girls. Partnerships with hospitals and clinics allow increased nutrition for patients to complete their treatments.
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Innovation Gives Rise to Enduring Impact in Haiti
Creativity and ingenuity often fuel progress for communities served by Rise Against Hunger meals. Hopestart International, our partner in Haiti, uses large electric stoves to cook meals en masse rather than utilizing wood and charcoal cooking sources that emit smoke and harmful toxins. Hopestart International adds eggs and chicken, produced and raised onsite, to our meals and increases the protein content often lacking in Haitian diets. The organization also creates its own electricity with solar panels, and plans to produce more of its own food with drought-resistant crops that will thrive during extended dry periods. This inventive spirit extends precious resources, and increases the reach and impact that Hopestart International achieves within the local community. 38.1 million meals 734,906 total beneficiaries 42% school distribution 20% support in Haiti
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EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
Rise Against Hunger bolsters agricultural production and incomes through programs promoting improved agricultural methods, business skills and market access. With training and access to quality seeds and fertilizers, farmers can increase production and harvest a variety of nutritious crops. By supporting fish and livestock production, we provide pathways to diversify diets and improve nutritional outcomes. Through income generating activities, we help individuals increase their earning potential and their consistent access to food.
Micro-enterprise Provides Stability for Vietnamese Women
6,786 beneficiaries* 332% funding growth (2017) *direct and indirect beneficiaries, Jan-June 2018
Single mothers living in poverty struggle to ensure nutritious diets for themselves and their families. Rise Against Hunger and Children of Vietnam are assisting single mothers through a new program called Empowerment through Enterprise. This innovative program launches women on the path to income sustainability through their small enterprises with a combination of business and financial literacy training, microloans and grants, healthcare, education and housing assistance. Lifelong micro business skills and tools better position these women to increase their incomes and improve their families’ food security. U.S. : Pathways to End Hunger
EMERGENCY RELIEF
Rise Against Hunger responds to sudden and ongoing crises to meet immediate needs of affected populations and support the transition toward recovery. We have responded to emergencies by delivering food assistance, nutrition, water filters and hygiene kits to those displaced by natural disasters and man-made crises. A network of partners ensures meals and aid effectively reaches communities with the most dire needs.
668,893 beneficiaries $6 million total aid 24 countries served
Feeding Initiative Bolsters School Attendance
School feeding enables us to reach children where they are and where we want them to stay: in the classroom. Rise Against Hunger’s threeyear Southern Africa School Feeding Initiative targets 50,500 children in severe drought-affected communities in partnership with Adventist Development and Relief Agency and Islamic Relief USA. The initiative leverages 14.2 million meals annually across 183 schools in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
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398,000 volunteers worldwide 3,484 events globally 72.1 million meals packaged
Growing a Movement of Hunger Champions Our organization’s approach to ending hunger centers on building a global network of Hunger Champions. The core of this pathway focuses on Rise Against Hunger’s meal packaging program, a volunteer-based initiative that coordinates assembly of highly nutritious, vitamin-fortified meals distributed to children and families around the world. The program was created to give dedicated individuals and organizations — from corporations to civic clubs — the opportunity to participate in hands-on international hunger relief and to become educated, engaged advocates.
U.S. : Pathways to End Hunger
“This is possible.” — our global awareness campaign, cause marketing and special promotional events like World Food Day, along with advocacy actions continue to reach new Champions for the zero hunger movement.
World Food Day 2018 was (literally) one for the records! Rise Against Hunger is officially a Guinness World Records breaking organization. Rise Against Hunger now holds the record for “Most people assembling hunger relief packages simultaneously across multiple locations.” Global Innovation Through Entrepreneurial Solutions BACK to HOME
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