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At Rise Against Hunger, we’re excited to partner with your faith community in growing the movement to end hunger. When you host a meal packaging event, your church members and local community work together to package nutritious meals distributed to people facing hunger worldwide. Hear from a few of our faith community partners below to see the impact you can make possible!

“I am blessed to lead a church that seeks to reduce food insecurity in our community and across the globe. Rise Against Hunger offers the best way, I know, to bring a community together to bless others with a hands-on project for all ages and stages. Each year, we [host] at least two meal packaging events attended by countless people from across our community and our members. We believe in serving big by serving in big and small ways. Rise Against Hunger is a key event in our church year that brings together over 1,000 people to serve!”

Reverend Dr. Phil Schroeder
Senior Pastor Dunwoody United Methodist Church

“Thanks to our partnership with Rise Against Hunger over the past three years, we’ve packed close to 2 million meals, empowering communities to take action and make a difference in the global fight against hunger. Through our collaboration, we have mobilized thousands of volunteers to help end hunger and raise awareness of food insecurity around the world. Together, we are working tirelessly to ensure that no one goes hungry.”

Christ Fellowship Church
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

“Rise Against Hunger has been an incredible partnership since 2011 helping us join the fight to end hunger around the world. Their teams are passionate about their work, professional, and care about every detail from beginning to end. We have been able to empower our volunteers to serve packing over 1.5 million meals. Together, we are able to make an impact across the globe. We are so thankful for Rise Against Hunger and the difference they are making.”

Elevation Church
Charlotte, NC

“We can all do our part. We can all come together…for a good cause; we can agree upon that right now, even though things are a little divisive. What I saw [at the event] was a lot of people coming together for one good purpose, which was to [package] these meals so that people will not go hungry.”

Kristin Flynn
Outreach Director at Liquid Church

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Curious about what it truly means to partner with Rise Against Hunger in the fight to end hunger? Discover real stories from our top faith partners in our latest case studies — and see the powerful impact we can make together. Download now!

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.