President Barack Obama and Dr. Mo Ibrahim Recognized at the 2013 Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner Read More
USAID Shares the Success Story of an Africare beneficiary in Burkina Faso with "Enough Food to Feed His Family" Read More
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- Africare Receives Four-Star Rating from Charity Navigator Read More
Pictures from the 2013 Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner.
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Annual Bishop Walker Dinner
Pictures from the 2013 Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner.
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Clean Water Partnership with Coca-Cola and DEKA
Africare’s President Darius Mans discusses DEKA’s cutting edge “Slingshot” portable water purification system
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Africare's Donor Spotlight
Learn more about this month's donor spotlight here
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CARE Visits Mwanzo Bora
Read more about CARE's visit to the Mwanzo Bora program site in Tanzania
2012 Annual Report
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Read about Africa's Moment in July's issue of Fortune magazine.
Events Calendar
Africare is proud to partner with Dreaming Out Loud, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit empowering under-served communities, to generate a greater awareness of food insecurity in the U.S. capital and around the world for World Hunger Day on Tuesday May 28, 2013.
Join Africare on May 25 at Dreaming Out Loud's Aya Community Market.
Join Africare on May 28 as we host the #Fast4Hunger Twitter Chat for World Hunger Day. Use hashtag #Fast4Hunger to join in on the conversation
President's Corner
We Know Africa Can Feed Itself
The good news is that hunger is decreasing globally. The number of chronically hungry people shrank from nearly one in five people worldwide between 1990 and 1992, to about one in eight people between 2010 and 2012. That is real progress, but it is too soon to celebrate.
Between 2010 and 2012, 868 million people around the world regularly lacked enough food to eat, 234 million in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. Just imagine if every person in the five most populous states in the U.S. -- California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois -- was chronically hungry. That would be less than half of those suffering today in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In Africa hunger seasons can draw out for several months as families ration the final portions of their harvest, pray for the rains to come and wait for conditions to plant and reap their next harvest. Meanwhile, farmers have to work their fields with empty stomachs, and children walk home from school to find there is no meal waiting for them. Read More
Of every Africare dollar...