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Alleviating Global Hunger Together: The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation Commits $15 Million to Rise Against Hunger Over Next Three Years

on  April 9, 2024

Since 2013, The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation has been a vital partner in Rise Against Hunger’s mission to end global hunger — and today, we’re excited to announce an extended three-year partnership with the company. Kraft Heinz is committing $15 million, which will be dispersed over the next three years, to alleviate food and nutrition insecurity for communities around the world. Just as Rise Against Hunger is driven by the vision of a world without hunger, Kraft Heinz is also committed to alleviating global hunger, with a goal to provide 1.5 billion meals to people in need by 2025. Kraft Heinz’s continued partnership with Rise Against Hunger will be equivalent to 463 million meals for 13.5 million people, advancing the company’s goal and making a huge impact in supporting this critical issue!  The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation’s new partnership investment will support our work in many ways. Notable highlights include: 

  • Fully funding 36 million micronutrient sachets in 207 million Rise Against Hunger meals.
  • Local and regional procurement of 5.5 million meals in remote, last-mile communities.
  • Support of sustainable agriculture projects with the equivalent of 250 million meals.
  • Engaging thousands of Kraft Heinz employees in volunteer events and opportunities worldwide each year.

Children eating Rise Against Hunger meals, fortified with Kraft Heinz micronutrient sachets, through a school feeding program in the Philippines.
This extended commitment continues our decade-long partnership. From 2021-2023, Rise Against Hunger reached 8.9 million people in 48 countries as a direct result of Kraft Heinz’s support. Kraft Heinz also provides micronutrient sachets for the volunteer-packaged Rise Against Hunger meals that are distributed to people facing hunger globally. Since 2013, more than 400 million Rise Against Hunger meals have been fortified with 75 million Kraft Heinz micronutrient sachets.
Through the partnership, Kraft Heinz supports Rise Against Hunger’s sustainable agriculture projects in several countries, including South Africa.
This is truly the tip of the iceberg for the transformational impact Kraft Heinz has helped make possible! Kraft Heinz supports our Empowering Communities sustainable agriculture projects that work alongside local communities to improve long-term food security solutions. From 2021-2023, Kraft Heinz’s support enabled Rise Against Hunger to implement sustainable agriculture projects that produced the equivalent of over 207 million meals in Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, South Africa and India. Kraft Heinz also supports our emergency response efforts, including floods in India, Italy and South Africa; COVID-19 in India and Indonesia; typhoons in the Philippines; displaced people Ukraine, Moldova, Poland and Romania; and more from 2021-2023. 
Kraft Heinz employees serve meals to schoolchildren during a trip to the Philippines with Rise Against Hunger in 2024.
Kraft Heinz helps us grow the movement to end hunger, engaging thousands of their employees in the packaging of millions of meals for food-insecure communities since 2013 and recently joining us on impact trips to South Africa and the Philippines to see the impact of our partnership firsthand.As we work to end hunger, Kraft Heinz’s partnership is crucial. We are so thankful for Kraft Heinz’s support of our mission to end global hunger and excited about the impact we’ll make together over the next three years through this extended commitment! Interested in learning more about Kraft Heinz and Rise Against Hunger’s extended partnership? Read the full press release available here.

About the Author

Hannah Payne is the Public Relations & Communications Manager at Rise Against Hunger. She facilitates communication between Rise Against Hunger and the media.

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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.