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Global HQ Office on April 20, 2026

We served 7,389,552 people across 41 countries last year — and this wouldn’t have been possible without your support! Check out our 2025 impact results in this blog.

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  • By Stone Powell-McDavitt
on March 5, 2026
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The Latest Stories Of Impact

on August 11, 2025
Elevation Church achieved an incredible milestone of impact in July 2025: 5 million meals packaged with Rise Against Hunger since 2011! The milestone occurred during LOVE Week, the church’s annual week of service.
Global HQ Office
on May 12, 2025
Anyone — no matter your age — can get involved in the work to end world hunger! The children and young adults of Church of the Vietnamese Martyrs in Richmond, Virginia, know this well.
Global HQ Office
on April 16, 2025
At Rise Against Hunger, we impacted over 9.4 million lives in 41 countries in 2024 — and this truly wouldn’t be possible without volunteers like YOU! Volunteers help us package millions of meals each year.
  • By Amanda Whitmyer
Global HQ Office
on April 1, 2025
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.
  • By Mariquita Blumberg
Global HQ Office
on January 17, 2025
At a meal packaging event hosted on December 14, 2024, the Million Meal Project, a local nonprofit started by the Blumberg family in Edgemont, New York, reached the impactful milestone of 1 million meals packaged.
  • By Dezarie N. Mayers
Global HQ Office
on November 14, 2024
Pfizer has been a pivotal partner in the work to end global hunger for 14 years and recently reached the incredible milestone of 5 million meals packaged with Rise Against Hunger.

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.