Top 5 World Hunger Charities in North America

Dale Bolton
4 min readSep 10, 2020

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It is no secret that hunger is one of the main problems affecting humanity. Many people die every year, especially children, due to malnutrition.

It is important to emphasize that around the world there are many people who enjoy the pleasure of cooking, but there are also many people who do not have enough to eat and also suffer from malnutrition.

However, there are now many charities that are specifically dedicated to combating this type of problem, and they help millions of people. These organizations are trying to do their best to eradicate malnutrition and even poverty because malnutrition is directly related to world poverty.

Below is a top 5 ranking of the world’s top hunger charities in North America.

1. Thrive For Good

Thrive For Good Introduction — “What Seeds of Change will you Plant?”

Without a doubt, this is the main organization and one of the most important, and this is due to its excellent method that Thrive uses to end world hunger.

Mainly Thrive trains many people in agriculture, Thrive’s goal is to help communities grow a lot of totally healthy food that will help fight any kind of disease, and of course, malnutrition.

The mission of this charity is to train and equip different communities with the necessary tools to create “Life Gardens”. Of course, this helps the communities to get out of poverty and to have excellent nutrition.

The Thrive organization tracks every dollar that people donate, and through monthly reports, they detail all the benefits generated by other people’s donations and also take pictures of the projects that are funded.

Current Achievements

  • 37 thousand people benefit monthly
  • 38 thousand “Life Gardens” created in different communities
  • 1.4 million meals produced monthly
  • 683 thousand dollars is the total value of the food produced

2. Action Against Hunger

This organization has been committed to ending world hunger for approximately 40 years in nearly 50 countries.

Action Against Hunger’s mission is to solve the problem of hunger, save billions of lives, and malnutrition and poverty, and prevent and treat disease.

The goal of this charity is to teach communities to learn how to be independent so that they can produce their own healthy food.

Also, this organization is fully committed to continuing working towards the complete eradication of world hunger, malnutrition and poverty.

Current Achievements

  • 17 million people were benefited last year in 46 countries

3. Feeding America

According to this organization, 1 in 9 Americans fights against hunger. Years ago, more than 40 million people suffered from malnutrition. However, malnutrition is present in every state in the United States of America.

Feeding America’s primary mission is to feed all malnourished Americans.

In this charity, people can donate money, or they can also donate other types of products, such as healthy food, meat, and any type of material that this organization can use to benefit another person.

Current Achievements

  • Every year Feeding America helps 25 million people
  • More than 9 million children benefit from this organization

4. Bread for the World Institute

This charitable and religious organization helps the United States of America fight hunger.

The focus and mission of this charity is to educate people, analyze the problem of world hunger, and design different strategies to succeed in fighting this huge problem.

Therefore, this organization aims to analyze hunger and malnutrition, and then offer different solutions and strategies. Bread for the World Institute teaches policymakers and the public about the problem of world hunger.

Current Achievements

  • Bread for the World Institute helped strengthen national nutrition programs

5. Freedom from Hunger

This world hunger charity has been helping all “poor” people without money for over 70 years.

Freedom from Hunger was created in 1946, specifically in California, and is currently an international development organization that has the capacity to provide different solutions to the problem of world hunger.

The mission of Freedom from Hunger is to help the poor and malnourished and to help fund humanitarian projects that fight hunger and poverty.

Freedom from Hunger uses donations to improve and strengthen health and education services, to help very poor families, to safeguard the health of thousands of people, and to eradicate world hunger.

Current Achievements

  • More than one million families benefited in 15 countries.
  • The Yolo County Board of Supervisors proclaimed September 28 as “Freedom from Hunger Day”.
Thrive For Good — Life Garden

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