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FedEx Reaches 1 Million Meals Packaged to Help End Hunger

on  February 8, 2023

Rise Against Hunger’s work to end global hunger wouldn’t be possible without others — like FedEx — joining our mission. FedEx has partnered with us since 2014. Committed to the communities we serve around the world, FedEx has hosted over 70 Rise Against Hunger Experience meal packaging events and engaged thousands of FedEx employees across the globe in the packaging of nutritious meals to support people facing hunger. And last month, FedEx reached a major, impactful milestone — 1 million meals packaged with Rise Against Hunger!

FedEx employees in Houston, Texas, on January 16, 2023.
On January 16, 2023, over 700 FedEx employees worked together to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy with a day of service. FedEx team members packaged over 170,000 meals that day in nine cities across the United States: Atlanta, Georgia; Houston, Texas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Los Angeles, California; Memphis, Tennessee; Newark, New Jersey; Orlando, Florida; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Lorton, Virginia. With the meals packaged in those nine locations that day, FedEx surpassed 1 million meals. Here are a few highlights from those events: 
So many FedEx team members gave back by packaging meals in Memphis!
Ringing the gong for another 1,000 meals packaged in Orlando.
Left: Boxes of meals in Indianapolis; Right: FedEx employees packaging meals in Atlanta.
The meals packaged by FedEx since 2014 have had a huge impact, providing people facing hunger with immediate nourishment. In addition to packaging meals, FedEx has also partnered with Rise Against Hunger by supporting our gift-in-kind efforts. We are so grateful for FedEx’s continued support of our mission to end global hunger! Want to learn how your company can join the movement to end hunger? Fill out the form on our Corporate Partnerships page! 

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Strength, Stability And Hope

The gift that filled Nelly’s table.

“We were yielding very little, and the crops could not sustain us the whole year,” Nelly remembers. As a mother of seven and a farmer with two decades of experience, the stress of inconsistent yields was all-consuming. A poor harvest not only strained her family financially, but also limited their own meals to just two a day. Their story reflects that of many in their fishing and farming village near a lake in the Karonga district of northern Malawi. Here, heavy rainfall makes conventional farming methods nearly impossible. The entire village is, quite literally, saturated in food insecurity — a reality that leaves families struggling to survive season after season without a dependable source of nourishment.

In 2019, Nelly began participating in Harvesting Prosperity and Resilience, a sustainable agriculture project implemented by Rise Against Hunger in partnership with the Foundation for Community Support Services (FOCUS). The project works with 3,100 smallholder farmers in Malawi’s Karonga and Mzimba districts to strengthen food and nutrition security by improving production methods, nutrition practices and household income.

Just one year later, Nelly was ready to expand the variety of crops on her farm. What land once only produced maize began to flourish with sesame, cowpeas, rice and groundnuts during the rainy season (summer), as well as maize and vegetables during the dry season (winter). Through climate-smart agriculture training, she learned new techniques like manure making, pit planting and mulching, crop rotation and intercropping. Equipped with these tools, Nelly’s farm began to thrive.

After the 2023–2024 growing season, she sold enough produce to purchase an ox cart. Her harvests in 2024-2025 season yielded over 500 pounds of crops, including 22 bags of groundnuts, seven bags of maize, 12 tins of sesame and three bags of rice. With this surplus, she was able to invest in a motorbike, which she now uses to transport African doughnuts (mandasi) that she cooks and sells — creating yet another source of income for her family.

The transformation reaches far beyond her finances. Nelly now has the stability to provide for her husband and children. “I am able to eat different food types, pay school fees for my children and fulfill the visions that I have made with my family,” she beams. “I am now sleeping peacefully without any fears of food or paying school fees for the children.”

Her leadership has also grown. Today, Nelly serves as a leader in the Harvesting Prosperity and Resilience project, teaching other farmers in her district to adopt climate-resilient, labor-saving practices. By sharing her knowledge, she is multiplying her impact — empowering her neighbors to experience the same transformation she has achieved.

Across Nelly’s community, food and economic security are on the rise. Lombani, a government extension officer for the region, explains, “I can see the community is being transformed in the sense that in the area, there is food, income and nutrition security. Development is also happening at the household level.”

Nelly reflects on what it means to invest in holistic programs that address the root causes of hunger: “We are now healthy people. Children are going to school after eating their breakfast, having high yields and different types of crops due to conservation agriculture practices. With the support from the project, we have food, and we can access other food items from the market after selling our produce.”

This is the gift that fills: a future full of stability, strength and hope. It fills tables with food, families with security and communities with the resources to thrive. It’s an investment in futures rooted in resilience and hope.