WhyHunger has partnered with Run For Good to offer a free wellness platform linking physical activity and charitable giving for fitness enthusiasts where you can track your activities while raising awareness and funds to fight hunger. We have launched a fundraising campaign powered by Run For Good and we’d love your support! Here are two ways
30-09-2020
What started as a 1,500 square foot lawn in front of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland now annually produces over 1,000 pounds of fresh food for the community and has sparked a movement involving over fifty churches across the United States. “Black Churches can be powerful partners in the creation of food systems
28-09-2020
The Landless Workers Movement (MST) – the largest peasant movement in Latin America has added a new collective that will be dedicated to and directed by its LGBTQ+ members. WhyHunger had the opportunity to interview two members of MST’s LGBTQ+ Collective to learn about their internal process to create this new collective and what it holds for the future. This
23-09-2020
Back in April, Governor Andrew Cuomo shared a Tweet in which he referred to the coronavirus as “the Great Equalizer.” He was not the only one; Madonna used the same phrase in a video to her fans. This arguably represented the attitude toward the pandemic in its early days- we're all in it together. With states issuing health recommendations to
17-08-2020
WhyHunger has been working hard to assess the situation for our allies and partners on the ground struggling to feed and care-take during the coronavirus pandemic. For the majority of our partners, COVID is clearly exposing what has been an ongoing humanitarian crisis of food insecurity in both rural and urban communities worldwide. For indigenous peoples in particular, many of
14-08-2020
Ending hunger and advancing the human right to nutritious food is of paramount importance to us, and we’re thrilled to team up with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), the world’s largest nutrition and health coaching school, as our partner in achieving our mission! Until Monday, July 27th, IIN will donate $100 to WhyHunger for each new enrollment! To learn
23-07-2020
By Romy Felsen-Parsons The rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has caused the number of people living in conditions of food insecurity to skyrocket, with experts predicting that the number of people suffering through severe food shortages will swell from 135 million to a staggering 265 million globally. However, statistics illustrate that food insecurity in the United States is
01-07-2020
Over the last half century, small farmers and fisher people across the world have increasingly been dispossessed of their land and denied resources while multinational food corporations have grown to be ever more powerful. In response, landed workers and fisher people began to organize. Yet in order to take on the global food system, they needed to mount an equally
01-07-2020
WhyHunger has been in touch with our partners across the country and the globe to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their communities and what they’re doing to help. What we’ve heard has been both heartbreaking and inspiring—further demonstrating the critical role of grassroots organizations as first responders in their communities. In the coming
24-06-2020
As of today, Brazil has over 900,000 confirmed cases of COVID and it is now projected to have the highest number of deaths, passing the United States. If that was not worrisome enough, the current administration has yet to name a new Minister of Health, the third since the beginning of this pandemic. Astonishingly, not too long ago, Brazil was
24-06-2020
WhyHunger has partnered with Run For Good to offer a free wellness platform linking physical activity and charitable giving for fitness enthusiasts where you can track your activities while raising awareness and funds to fight hunger. We have launched a fundraising campaign powered by Run For Good and we’d love your support! Here are two ways
30-09-2020
What started as a 1,500 square foot lawn in front of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland now annually produces over 1,000 pounds of fresh food for the community and has sparked a movement involving over fifty churches across the United States. “Black Churches can be powerful partners in the creation of food systems
28-09-2020
The Landless Workers Movement (MST) – the largest peasant movement in Latin America has added a new collective that will be dedicated to and directed by its LGBTQ+ members. WhyHunger had the opportunity to interview two members of MST’s LGBTQ+ Collective to learn about their internal process to create this new collective and what it holds for the future. This
23-09-2020
Back in April, Governor Andrew Cuomo shared a Tweet in which he referred to the coronavirus as “the Great Equalizer.” He was not the only one; Madonna used the same phrase in a video to her fans. This arguably represented the attitude toward the pandemic in its early days- we're all in it together. With states issuing health recommendations to
17-08-2020
WhyHunger has been working hard to assess the situation for our allies and partners on the ground struggling to feed and care-take during the coronavirus pandemic. For the majority of our partners, COVID is clearly exposing what has been an ongoing humanitarian crisis of food insecurity in both rural and urban communities worldwide. For indigenous peoples in particular, many of
14-08-2020
Ending hunger and advancing the human right to nutritious food is of paramount importance to us, and we’re thrilled to team up with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), the world’s largest nutrition and health coaching school, as our partner in achieving our mission! Until Monday, July 27th, IIN will donate $100 to WhyHunger for each new enrollment! To learn
23-07-2020
By Romy Felsen-Parsons The rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has caused the number of people living in conditions of food insecurity to skyrocket, with experts predicting that the number of people suffering through severe food shortages will swell from 135 million to a staggering 265 million globally. However, statistics illustrate that food insecurity in the United States is
01-07-2020
Over the last half century, small farmers and fisher people across the world have increasingly been dispossessed of their land and denied resources while multinational food corporations have grown to be ever more powerful. In response, landed workers and fisher people began to organize. Yet in order to take on the global food system, they needed to mount an equally
01-07-2020
WhyHunger has been in touch with our partners across the country and the globe to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their communities and what they’re doing to help. What we’ve heard has been both heartbreaking and inspiring—further demonstrating the critical role of grassroots organizations as first responders in their communities. In the coming
24-06-2020
As of today, Brazil has over 900,000 confirmed cases of COVID and it is now projected to have the highest number of deaths, passing the United States. If that was not worrisome enough, the current administration has yet to name a new Minister of Health, the third since the beginning of this pandemic. Astonishingly, not too long ago, Brazil was
24-06-2020