The scale of the current food crisis is staggering

Conflicts, climate change, economic shocks, and natural disasters, supply issues, and a spike in food and fuel prices have created a hunger catastrophe around the world. This increase in global food insecurity disproportionately affects poor families in almost every country. Proper nutrition is vital. Children and families cannot thrive while suffering from food deprivation.

• As many as 783 million people are facing chronic hunger, according to the World Food Programme. 
• 99% of the world’s undernourished people live in mid- and low-income countries.
• Hundreds of millions of children are malnourished or undernourished, harming their ability to survive, thrive, and reach their full potential. 

Our friars worldwide work daily to alleviate hunger and slow this heartbreaking trend, but they need your help. Would you prayerfully consider giving sacrificially to families facing unprecedented hunger?

Recent Project Highlights

In a single year, Franciscan friars supported by our missions ran 5 feeding programs in India and the Philippines, and fed thousands through disaster relief programs in Mexico, Sudan, Ukraine, and Morocco. Funds have been used to:

• Provide nutritious food for the economically poor tribal Khasi children in Nongjri Mission, North East India. 
• Run a 120-day feeding program for 25 poor children of the St. Francis parish in Rizal, Santiago City, Isabela, Philippines.
• Provide medical assistance and food to the Tri-People communities (Muslim, Christian and indigenous peoples) of Mindanao, Philippines.