Be part of the coalition tackling malnutrition and hunger
So many families around the world are struggling to provide for their children, and are living in impossible circumstances. Coronavirus is only making things tougher.
With your support, we can provide children and their families with the food and resources they need to stop them from falling into the cycle of malnutrition and potential starvation.
You can give them hope of a better future, free from hunger.
This year we’re distributing food in four countries: Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
We're focusing on areas where natural disasters, such as flooding and drought, have ruined harvests, or where conflict and violence have driven families from their homes, often leaving them with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Will you partner with us to ensure 64,131 people receive urgent food supplies?
Give life-saving food today
£170 can provide 3 malnourished children with a full recovery package
including food, medicine and a visit to a stabilisation centre
£1200 can provide 15 families with seeds and training
on growing nutritious vegetables and building a successful produce business
£4500 can provide emergency food supplies to 170 people
- give the essentials for three months of nutritious meals
We accept major gift donations by bank transfer. Please contact philanthropy@worldvision.org.uk or call 01908 24 46 49 for donations above £9,999. You can also donate over the phone, or online (for donations below £10,000).
We're the biggest partner of the World Food Programme, a food-assistance branch of the United Nations. Having worked together for over 20 years, we know how to identify and support the most vulnerable; malnourished children, pregnant women and those who have walked the furthest.
This partnership can transform lives - and we invite you to be a part of it.
We ensure that the most vulnerable - like refugees, pregnant women and families with hungry children - have regular access to food essentials. Our emergency food packages provide families with a month’s supply of essential staple ingredients including; oil, rice, tuna, flour, chicken broth, tomato puree, jam, chocolate powder and condensed milk.
World Vision's nutrition centres provide health checks for children and nutritional supplement food where needed. Children like two-year-old Minara, a Rohingya refugee living in a camp in Bangladesh, are helped to recover from malnutrition.
We help families to help themselves - providing training and resources needed to support people to grow enough food to provide for their families, as well as information that could help them to start their own business.
“Just a few weeks ago, I was a happily married woman and mother to my three children. I always looked forward to receiving my husband at the end of the day as he would come home with food. There was laughter and joy in the house as children waited for me to prepare supper. But today, all that is gone. My husband and I quarrel a lot. I know it’s not my husband’s fault but the children need to eat. I cannot look into the faded eyes of my three-year-old, Sadia. For a few days, we've been having just two meals a day of only rice and lentils,” says Shilpi, 35.
COVID-19 has changed Shilpi's family from one that was food-secure to one ravished by poverty.
Life hasn't always been easy for Shilpi and her husband Alamgir. Three years ago, they were gifted a rickshaw through the World Vision livelihoods programme. It changed their lives. However, rickshaw pulling is strictly prohibited during COVID-19 lockdowns. Since the wheels of the rickshaw stopped spinning, their lives have changed.
Now that Alamgir can't earn a living, they can't put food on the table for their three children. The lack of food is most acute in the youngest child, Sadia, who is losing weight, and has now lost her appetite.
I know which kinds of food are needed to change my baby’s story, but under the circumstances it’s almost impossible. There is no food anywhere.
Shilpi, 35
Bangladesh
Thankfully, World Vision has enlisted the family to be part of the food distribution programme. There's hope on the horizon.
By making our food programmes possible, you can support families like Shilpi's through this pandemic. You can keep children like Sadia safe from malnutrition and starvation.
Get in touch with Louisa today to find out more about our Ending Hunger and Malnutrition Projects - including the countries we work in and the projects you can support. We'll create a partnership based on your interests and requirements. You can call 01908 24 46 49 or email philanthropy@worldvision.org.uk
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Supporter since 2009
70 years
Protecting the vulnerable and fighting poverty
Nearly 100 countries
Working across the world, wherever we're needed
200 million children
Given education, water and food and empowered
