Freedom from Hunger

Overview

Founded in 1946, Freedom from Hunger is a nonprofit, international development organization that brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty.

Mission

Credit with Education is Freedom from Hunger's worldwide strategy to bring self-help solutions to the fight against hunger. Combining microcredit loans to very poor women with vital health and business education has become recognized as a powerful and proven approach to helping families become food-secure.

Program

Credit with Education is Freedom from Hunger's worldwide strategy to bring self-help solutions to the fight against hunger -- one family at a time. We launched the first Credit with Education program in 1988 in West Africa. What was then a bold new strategy—combining microcredit loans to very poor women with vital health and business education—has become recognized as a powerful and proven approach to helping families become food-secure.

Impact

Credit with Education is Freedom from Hunger's worldwide strategy to bring self-help solutions to the fight against hunger -- one family at a time. We launched the first Credit with Education program in 1988 in West Africa. What was then a bold new strategy—combining microcredit loans to very poor women with vital health and business education—has become recognized as a powerful and proven approach to helping families become food-secure.

Goals This Year

Reach for Three Million by 2010

Chief Executive

Christopher Dunford, Ph.D.

Countries of Operation

Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Peru, Philippines