Paris, France · Established 1979
Action Against Hunger
For a world free from hunger.
(About)
Fighting malnutrition and providing safe water in 55+ countries.
Action Contre la Faim — Action Against Hunger in English — was founded in Paris in 1979 by a group of French intellectuals, doctors and writers including Bernard-Henri Lévy, Marek Halter and Alfred Kastler, in response to the famine among Afghan refugees fleeing the Soviet invasion. Its founding charter committed the organisation to fighting hunger with independence, neutrality and non-discrimination.
The network today consists of national headquarters in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and India, and runs programmes in around fifty countries. Its technical specialisation is the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), the outpatient treatment model — using ready-to-use therapeutic food and screening at community level — that has replaced hospital-based treatment as the international standard.
Around that core the organisation delivers water, sanitation and hygiene programmes, food security and livelihoods work, and mental-health and psychosocial support in fragile contexts, and it maintains a research department that publishes on the operational effectiveness of nutrition interventions.
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Structure & mandate
Founded 1979 in Paris (Action Contre la Faim). International network coordinated from Paris with headquarters in six countries.
Key public programmes
- ▸Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)
- ▸Water, sanitation and hygiene in nutrition emergencies
- ▸Food security and livelihoods in fragile contexts
Founded
1979
HQ
Paris
France
Countries of work
10+
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(Work in the field)
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(Where we operate)
Active in 10 countries.
- Somalia
- Yemen
- South Sudan
- Nigeria
- DR Congo
- Mali
- Chad
- Ethiopia
- Pakistan
- Guatemala
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