Hunger | Mercy Corps

Millions of families around the world experience hunger every day. Food shortages due to poverty, disasters, conflicts and economic collapse lead to malnutrition, disease and death. Mercy Corps' food programs concentrate on those who are most vulnerable — children, the elderly, pregnant women and the displaced.

One Table: Petition to fight world hunger ›

More than one billion people went to bed hungry last night. Chances are they will go to bed hungry tonight as well — even though the world produces enough food to feed every man, woman and child in the world.

One Table: One billion are hungry ›

Last week the UN announced that the number of people suffering from hunger now totals one billion worldwide.

Blog Post: A million subtle shades of gray ›

For the most part, black-and-white thinking doesn’t hold true anymore. These days everything is focused or diffused through countless prisms of culture, society, history, individuality and situation.

Blog Post: From tomatoes to empowerment ›

Country: Tajikistan

The true success of Mercy Corps' program in Tajikistan lies in its network of 300 health and agriculture volunteers, who take time to educate their communities — and empower women.

Blog Post: Becoming Abla ›

A man does what he must to provide for his family. But in the small West African nation of Togo, it goes much deeper than that: each man is assigned a name, and judged by it.

One Table: Regrowing the Garden ›

Country: Myanmar

Life here in Bo Kone, Myanmar, a village of about a thousand people, has never been easy. Located on an isolated island in the Irrawaddy Delta, it's about an hour's boat ride to the nearest town.

One Table: A Stove to Save Lives ›

Country: DR Congo

For 59-year-old Dafroza Baleberaho, building improved cookstoves isn’t just about preventing climate change, it’s about saving women’s lives.

One Table: Farming Rice, Intensively ›

Country: Sri Lanka

Kanthi Weerasinghe is one of 160 farmers in the village of Yahangala East experimenting with a method of growing rice called SRI, which is short for System of Rice Intensification.

Blog Post: Kyrgyzstan: A confluence of crisis ›

Country: Kyrgyzstan

In Kyrgyzstan, Mercy Corps recently begun a food distribution program in coordination with the World Food Program: the first such program in more than ten years in this former Soviet republic.

Obama Announces New Anti-Hunger Commitments ›

President Obama made a strong first step toward ending hunger and poverty in London today, promising to double food aid and devote new U.S. funds to help poor nations combat the global economic crisis.

Share this page on Twitter ›

Share this page on Facebook ›

Share this page by Email ›

One Table:
How You Can Help

Donate $50 by buying a Women's Small Business Kit and help give women in our programs the resources to turn their ideas and energy into successful small businesses.

One Table ›

Program Details

Mercy Corps works to help poor communities get sufficient, safe and nutritious food – now and in the future. We provide immediate relief to hungry families and we help people achieve self-sufficiency, through economic and agricultural development, so they can feed themselves over the long term.

Read more ›

Recent Blog Posts

November 18, 2009
A fish cup of rice
October 02, 2009
A chance for the people of Zimbabwe
September 30, 2009
The resilence of children

Donate to our
One Table Fund

Sign up for email updates

Ways to Give

Featured Events

Portland: Design For The Other 90%

Mercy Corps on the Web

One Table: Help us solve world hunger by investing in the world's women

Mercy Corps

PO Box 2669, Dept W
Portland OR 97208-2669 USA
To give: (888) 256-1900
Contact Us Office Locations

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.

Over the last five years, we've allocated more than 89% of our resources directly to programs. America's premier charity evaluator gives Mercy Corps four stars in organizational efficiency. Click here to learn more.

Mercy Corps is a 501(c)3 charity. Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by U.S. law.