With dreams of becoming a doctor, 15-year-old Farhan walks more than 3.5 miles every day to and from his school, where he not only receives an education, but also a meal to support his nutritional needs.
In a neighborhood between the sea and the Comoro River in Timor-Leste’s capital city of Dili, Mario, age 27, lives and attends university.
In Tay Giang, a mountainous district in Vietnam, five-year-old Uyen lives with her parents, siblings and grandmother. Her parents work planting rice in the high hills.
As many as 828 million people around the world are facing hunger. That’s the latest information from the recently published The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 (SOFI).
Bungkol Elementary is located in Magdalena, Laguna. 282 students, from kindergarten through grade 6, attend the school and receive nutritious meals provided by Rise Against Hunger Philippines.
The Feed for Knowledge project supports seven schools in southwestern Kenya through a school feeding program that holistically reduces malnutrition and boosts education, agriculture, livelihoods and health.