PRESS RELEASE

NEW ALLIANCES TO DEFEAT STATUS QUO

OF CHILDHOOD HUNGER IN MALAWI

Feed the Children office in Malawi will unite with

Government, Development partners, Local Councils,
private sector, the donor community, NGOs and
Communities to tackle the root cause of childhood
hunger in Malawi.

Since its founding over 35 years ago, Feed the Children

has been implementing child feeding programs in America
and around the World in 18 countries including Malawi.
Today, Feed the Children realizes that childhood hunger is
a complex and deep-rooted issue that cannot be tackled
single-handedly or through a single approach.

Feed the Children in Malawi is working towards ending

childhood hunger through the Child Focused Community
Development Program and other donor funded projects
through a comprehensive and intergrated approach to
help disadvantaged children, their families and communities
to achieve self-sufficency.

ABOUT FEED THE CHILDREN

Feed the Children (FEED), one of the worlds leading

anti-hunger organization announces a new Vision and
Purpose to Create a World where no Child goes to bed
hungry. The organisation launches its new brand today, the
26th March, 2015 at Ufulu Gardens from 2:00-4:30pm.
Government officials, other NGOs, different stakeholders,
partners, donor community, district council representatives
and Feed the Children Staff will witness the ceremony
where a new logo, vision, mission, promise and values will
be unveiled.

Feed the Children understands today that to end childhood

hunger, there is need to empower children, unite forces
and attack the root cause from all angles. FEED believes
that it will take a multi-sectoral approach to end Childhood
hunger in Malawi. It will take donors to believe in the
cause, experts to diagonize the problem and innovate
solutions, organisations to pool their resources and expertise,
communities to work together towards sustaninable
development and leaders to institutionalise change.

Feed the Childrens work in Malawi centres on supporting

children, their households and communities under its four
program pillars: Food & Nutrition, Health & Water, Education
and Livelihoods.

Since 2009, Feed the Children has fought hunger in

Malawi by providing food, water and education to
those in need. The non-profit has grown into an
organization that unites to defeat childhood hunger,
empower families to become independent, innovate
new ways of doing things and defend childhood.

The new brand reflects the organizations renewed

commitment to do more together so that more children
can just be children and no child ever goes to bed hungry.
In its newly defined identity, Feed the Children is set to
pursue new alliances with various stakeholders including
government, development partners, local councils, private
sector, donor community, NGOs and communities to
defeat the status quo of hunger and end childhood hunger.

To demonstrate this new mindset, Feed the Children office

in Malawi has within its Country program partnered with
several institutions and organizations including the
Government of Malawi through Ministry of Gender, Children,
Disability and Social Welfare, the Department of Nutrition
HIV & AIDS, USAID, World Relief, Total Land Care, Childrens
Brighter Future, Nu Skin and many others to fight child
Malnutrition in the country.

For more information please contact:

Wezzie Grace Kenan

Program Development & Communciations Officer
Tel: +265 (0) 1 794 120
Email: wkenan@feedthechildren.mw

By banding together with partners, donors and

communities to defeat hunger, Feed the Children is
amongst other things supporting CBCC feeding program
reaching out to over 80,000 children, promoting food
security, empowering households to have sustainable
sources of income and supporting communities to
access clean and safe water through distribution of
water guard and installation of boreholes.

w w w. f e e d t h e c h i l d r e n . o r g

: +265 (0) 212 254 965

In Malawi, youths and children make over 50% of the

total population. Feed the Children believes that the fight
against childhood hunger is the right thing to do. It is not
an easy fight, but the only way to ensure that one day no
child should go to bed hungry in Malawi.

Founded in 1979, Feed the Children is one of the

worlds leading anti-hunger organizations, dedicated
to creating a world where no child goes to bed hungry.