Nutrition & Health
A world without hunger will never be achieved alone. We collaborate with communities, foundations, companies, governments, and humanitarian partners to achieve zero hunger.
A world without hunger will never be achieved alone. We collaborate with communities, foundations, companies, governments, and humanitarian partners to achieve zero hunger.
Ending world hunger isn’t about a single solution—it demands a comprehensive, multi-layered strategy. It means investing in sustainable agriculture, improving food distribution systems, supporting local farmers, and addressing the root causes of poverty and inequality. Education, clean water, and access to healthcare all play a role in building food-secure communities.
Global Faith For Action pioneered some of the earliest formulas and approaches to treating malnourished children. Around the world, our teams work in health centers, on mobile teams, and in communities to find cases of malnutrition and ensure that children receive lifesaving treatment. Every year, our community-based nutrition programs reach hundreds of thousands of mothers and children.
Our teams train community health workers to educate mothers, fathers, and other caregivers about the benefits of breastfeeding and improved nutrition to help babies and young children grow up strong and healthy.
In our peer support groups, we work with pregnant women and new mothers – and, too! – to encourage and promote good health, nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, and care practices for mothers, infants, and young children.
We also teach parents to use simple tools to detect malnutrition at home, without the help of a health worker. This way, they can monitor their children’s nutrition status regularly and – if needed – get them treated as soon as possible.
Experience with conflict, extreme weather events, the stress of food insecurity and illnesses, and other distressing events can cause trauma, depression, and other mental health issues. For parents, this can sometimes make it difficult to bond and provide care for their children, which can lead to malnutrition or other illnesses.
Global Faith For Action's teams provide psychological first aid in emergencies, offer mental health counselling, provide women and children with safe spaces to find calm, play, bond, and talk about difficult issues, and help people to develop coping strategies to deal with mental health challenges.
Strong health systems save lives and help children not only survive, but thrive. We provide technical expertise and support to strengthen community health systems, helping to harness and build local capacity. Our aim is to transfer our knowledge, fill in gaps in supplies and funding, work in partnership with communities and local governments, and improve local health and nutrition services to ensure sustainable impact.
For more than 5 years, our teams have been on the cutting edge of research in the nutrition field. We helped to develop revolutionary nutrition treatment products and conducted field testing of innovative treatment protocols that are now best practice. Today, our research strives to save more children’s lives by improving and developing new approaches to preventing and treating malnutrition.
“I feel very happy,” says Fatuma, mother of Halima, who recovered from malnutrition with help from Global Action For Change. “I remember how sick she was then, and how healthy she is now, obaland I am so grateful.”
To bridge the gap between remote communities and formal health systems, Global Faith For Action partners with health workers. We empower community health workers and volunteers with the skills and tools needed to diagnose and treat malnourished children in the villages where they live and work.
Community health workers educate communities, check on children’s health, provide immunizations, and treat malnutrition and other illnesses early. They save parents the long walk to the nearest health clinic, and continue to monitor a child’s recovery during regular home visits.
Malnutrition is one of the greatest threats to child survival worldwide and the underlying cause of nearly half of all child deaths. Global Action For Change expertise in saving malnourished children’s lives is internationally renowned, thanks to our more than four decades of experience working where hunger is most severe and entrenched.
From isolated rural communities to refugee camps and more, we prevent and treat undernutrition in more than 55 countries around the world. We work in humanitarian emergencies and in more stable contexts to improve the health and survival of the most vulnerable children, as well as pregnant women and nursing mothers.
The first 1,000 days between pregnancy and a baby’s second birthday are a critical window of opportunity for health. Good nutrition during this time period builds a strong immune system, ensures healthy physical and intellectual development, and supercharges children’s chances of survival.
We partner with governments and policymakers to advance effective, hunger-fighting solutions.
We tackle the root causes of hunger, helping people earn incomes and improve food security.
We treat deadly hunger and help families build long-term resiliency.
We bring clean water and safe sanitation to communities in need, helping to build healthier foundations.
We bring help and hope to communities devastated by natural disasters and conflicts.
Our pioneering research helps us – and partners – reach more children and stop hunger in its tracks.
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