April is Global Volunteer Month: Join Us As We Celebrate The Impact YOU Make Possible!

As a volunteer with Rise Against Hunger, your support strengthens communities and creates sustainable solutions for long-term food security, empowering volunteers in the countries we serve around the world. In honor of Global Volunteer Month, we are celebrating YOU and the remarkable difference you continue to make. Keep reading to learn more about Global Volunteer Month and how you can take action today to end hunger! 

The Purpose of Global Volunteer Month

Held every April, Global Volunteer Month is an initiative created by Points of Light, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to volunteer service. This month-long celebration encourages and recognizes volunteerism, sharing the positive impact of volunteers who actively give back to their communities and the world through service. 

At Rise Against Hunger, our community of Hunger Champions is vital to our mission. Whether you volunteer locally at one of our warehouse locations, provide your skills to further our mission or team up with your group or local community at a meal packaging event, you help children and their families facing hunger receive nutrition, education and hope for a nourished tomorrow. 

How Volunteer-Packaged Meals Nourish Lives (and Volunteers!) Worldwide

Your commitment as a volunteer strengthens communities and empowers many other volunteers worldwide, like Josephine in the Philippines. As a devoted mother and volunteer cook at Bungkol Elementary School, she prepares nutritious Rise Against Hunger meals packaged by volunteers like you for students up to twice a day through the school’s feeding program. 

With two children attending the school, Josephine’s children also receive weekly take-home rations, furthering the impact of the volunteer-packaged meals. She shares, “My hope for my two children, and to all the students here, is that they graduate from their studies, reach their dreams, so that when they get there, they can succeed more.” 

Ways You Can Get Involved This Global Volunteer Month

During Global Volunteer Month this April, there are many ways to volunteer in person or virtually and help grow the movement to end hunger. Join us in making a lasting, sustainable impact in one (or all) of the four ways below! 

• Host a meal packaging event: Help people facing hunger worldwide by volunteering with your business, church, organization, school or other group to package nourishing Rise Against Hunger meals. The meals you package are provided through school and community feeding programs.
• Join the League of Hunger Champions: Rise Against Hunger’s volunteer network is hundreds of thousands strong and ready to tackle ending hunger head-on. This home base is your way to connect with Hunger Champions across the country, stay engaged in our mission and learn about new opportunities to make an impact.
• Become a Social Media Ambassador: Engage your social media following to spread the word as an advocate for hunger relief. Once you sign up, you’ll receive a social media kit to share our mission and encourage others to volunteer. Be sure to tag our social profiles in your posts with #GlobalVolunteerMonth and #ItStartsWithAMeal.
• Donate to further the mission: Your gift helps sustain our impact, ensuring children, families and communities have access to nutrition and the resources they need to thrive. Together, we can make every month a volunteer month — it starts with a meal®, and it starts with you!