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Rise Against Hunger Experience

They may look like simple bags of rice and soy, but Rise Against Hunger meals represent the hopes and dreams of people worldwide. Our volunteers are the heart of our mission to end hunger and we could not send millions of meals around the globe each year without them. This page is your guide to everything you need to know about hosting an event with Rise Against Hunger!

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About 673 million people around the world are facing hunger. At Rise Against Hunger, we work with Hunger Champions — just like you — to end hunger in remote, last-mile communities.

Our Rise Against Hunger Experience events provide lasting, real-life impact as your group works together for a start-to-finish meal assembly experience to combine rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a packet of 18 vitamins and minerals into life-changing meal packages. The food stores easily, transports quickly and has a long shelf-life to help meet the immediate nutritional needs of people facing food insecurity, paving the way toward resilient and bright futures! You can also pair your Rise Against Hunger Experience with a Gather for Good virtual event.

Want more info? Keep scrolling to learn more about our events to see the incredible impact you’ll make worldwide when you partner with us to host an event! Ready to get started? Click the button below to fill out our interested form now!

  • Your Impact Goes Beyond a Meal

Meet Patricia from the Philippines

Patricia attends Oro Site High School in Legazpi City, Philippines. In partnership with Rise Against Hunger, in-country partner Convoy of Hope distributes meals at the school with the vitamins and minerals needed for proper growth and development. Patricia says, “I really like the meals that the parents cook us and it’s so delicious and it makes me eat more.” Volunteer events support children like Patricia to provide nutrition, education and hope.

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Patricia from Oro Site High School in the Philippines

  • Fun. Educational. Impactful.

Are You Ready for Your Hunger Relief Experience?

Your partnership supports the distribution of nutritious meals and provides sustainable, long-term solutions ensuring food and nutrition security in the communities we serve globally.

Whether it be team building, Environmental Social Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, holiday or birthday parties, conferences, student or employee orientation, there are many opportunities to make an impact with a Rise Against Hunger Experience event. Our event facilitators are skilled at customizing your engagement experience!

What we provide:

  • An expert event facilitator ready to manage the event and provide hunger education to your group.
  • All ingredients and supplies to create your group’s impact, are delivered directly to your location.
  • An announcement of your meals’ destination once shipped to all registered volunteers. 
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To find out more about meal packaging and how to organize your own event, fill out the form and a Rise Against Hunger team member will contact you to start planning. If you’ve connected with our team or filled out this form previously, no need to submit it again. A Rise Against Hunger team member will be in touch soon!
 

Perfect for all kinds of organizations:

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  • Communities of Faith
  • Colleges & Universities

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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.