Perhaps the most inspiring reason to join the End4Hunger campaign can be found in the words of the women we empower. Upon reading their stories, we hope that you are motivated by their strength, insight and grace.
After a flood that damaged her community, Augusta was desperate for a way to make money. “I had the idea to start a food business the way my mother did. It provided for our needs,” she remembers. But without any startup funds, Augusta’s loan requests were repeatedly met with rejection.
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Other mothers in nearby villages still struggle with poverty, disease, and chronic hunger. They watch their children waste away, with no hope that things will ever change.
Rita farms mangos and harvests them twice each year. Before she joined Freedom from Hunger’s Credit with Education program, she worked hard to stretch her modest profits to the next harvest. But in that last month before the mangos ripened, hunger struck her family without fail.
In Segundina’s rural Peruvian community, hunger is a seasonal problem. Right after the harvest, people tend to have enough to eat, but in the months when the harvest stockpiles have run low (September–February), families routinely go hungry. And, as their food supply decreases, illness increases, especially in young children.
Nancy Santana, who lives in Ecuador, used to sell motor oil seven days a week so that she could provide her children with enough food to survive, but the money she earned each day was never enough to truly alleviate their hunger.