The Hunger Project
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Our Vision
A world where every woman, man and child leads a healthy, fulfilling life of self-reliance and dignity.
Our Mission
To end hunger and poverty by pioneering sustainable, grassroots, women-centered strategies and advocating for their widespread adoption in countries throughout the world. Read about our approach.
Our Principles
Through our work to end hunger, we have recognized these ten principles as being fundamental to The Hunger Project. We challenge ourselves to ensure that each of our strategies builds on these principles.
1. Human Dignity.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, including the right to food, health, work and education. The inherent nature of every person is creative, resourceful, self-reliant, responsible and productive. We must not treat people living in conditions of hunger as beneficiaries, which can crush dignity, but rather as the key resource for ending hunger.
2. Gender Equality.
An essential part of ending hunger must be to cause society-wide change towards gender equality. Women bear the major responsibility for meeting basic needs, yet are systematically denied the resources, freedom of action and voice in decision-making to fulfill that responsibility.
3. Empowerment.
In the face of social suppression, focused and sustained action is required to awaken people to the possibility of self-reliance, to build confidence, and to organize communities to take charge of their own development.
4. Leverage.
Ending chronic hunger requires action that catalyzes large-scale systemic change. We must regularly step back — assess our impact within the evolving social/political/economic environment — and launch the highest leverage actions we can to meet this challenge.
5. Interconnectedness.
Our actions are shaped by, and affect, all other people and our natural environment. Hunger and poverty are not problems of one country or another but are global issues. We must solve them not as “donors and recipients” but as global citizens, working as coequal partners in a common front to end hunger.
6. Sustainability.
Solutions to ending hunger must be sustainable locally, socially, economically and environmentally.
7. Social Transformation.
People’s self-reliance is suppressed by conditions such as corruption, armed conflict, racism and the subjugation of women. These are all rooted in an age-old and nearly universal patriarchal mindset that must be transformed as part of a fundamental shift in the way society is organized.
8. Holistic Approach.
Hunger is inextricably linked to a nexus of issues including decent work, health, education, environmental sustainability and social justice. Only in solving these together will any of them be solved on a sustainable basis.
9. Decentralization.
Individual and community ownership of local development is critical. Actions are most successful if decisions are made close to the people. This requires effective national and local government working in partnership with the people.
10. Transformative Leadership.
Ending hunger requires a new kind of leadership: not top-down, authority-based leadership, but leadership that awakens people to their own power — leadership “with” people rather than leadership “over” people.
In sum, world hunger can be ended, but not by merely doing more of the same. Hunger is primarily a human issue, and ending hunger requires principles that are consistent with our shared humanity.
When:
Ongoing
Where:
110 West 30th Street, 6th Floor,
New York, NY 10001
Date Posted:
August 31st 2021
Skills:
Food & Beverage Services
Food Delivery / Distribution
Food Service
Good For:
Kids
Teens
People 55+
Group
Requirements:
Are you a young person interested in making a difference in the world?
Join The Hunger Project in its mission of ending hunger and poverty, while building your leadership skills.
End world hunger one grilled cheese at a time. The Hunger Project’s youth program, FeelGood, is a movement of passionate, committed university students turning their college experience into a time of global action. They develop their business, leadership and teamwork skills while running a successful social enterprise—typically a grilled cheese deli— to raise money and build public support for ending hunger and poverty.
Learn more about the program and how you can start a chapter here!
Hold a bake sale/educational event at your school or in your community to benefit The Hunger Project. Each item that is sold could have a label attached to it with some important statistics and facts about world hunger. Get the facts in our knowledge center.
Hold a fundraising event through your school, camp, youth group, religious group, or sorority or fraternity. Events could include yard sales, read-a-thons, benefit concerts and more!
The women of Alpha Chi Omega sorority in Quinnipiac University held a fashion show and donated the proceeds to The Hunger Project. Staci Sherman (right), sophomore, said: “We thought that of all the other organizations out there, we loved the idea of ending world hunger and empowering women and their families to stay healthy every day.”
Seventh and eight grade students at East Palo Alto Middle School in California had a special philanthropy project to research and choose ten non-profits focused on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to support. The Hunger Project received one of the highest amounts of money: $1,700!
Help us reach out! Do a school and community drive to encourage people to sign up for The Hunger Project’s email list. Learn and share some basics about world hunger and The Hunger Project and collect new members for our list..
Dine at home instead of going out for dinner, ice cream or whatever with friends, and send money you would have spent to The Hunger Project.
Start a coin collection campaign for The Hunger Project in stores in your neighborhood. Decorate a “coin can” and share about how important ending hunger is and that every penny counts.
Location:
1110 West 30th Street, 6th Floor,
New York, NY 10001
We delivers meals on a daily basis to those homebound and/or disabled persons who are unable to shop and cook for themselves.