Equipping Local Churches To Fight Hunger
Children and families living in poverty are the hardest hit by the global food crisis. But Compassion is equipping local churches to fight back.
How We Work
Compassion’s strategies include market system development, women’s empowerment and cash/voucher-based programming.
Our food security approach equips participants and their families to effectively restore and manage natural resources like soil and water to improve agricultural productivity.
Compassion seeks to partner with official donors to scale food security and resilience outcomes in large operational areas of countries at the national, community and household levels.
The number of people facing acute food insecurity has more than doubled since 2019, from 135 million to 309 million, according to the World Food Programme.
Compassion is actively responding by assisting more than 2,000 local communities where more than 30% of the population is currently food insecure. Through this effort, we’re serving more than 500,000 children.
In the most severe period of the global food crisis (from July 2022 to May 2023), Compassion and our local church partners in targeted countries around the world:
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