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Over the past two years, the pandemic created a dire situation regarding hunger and malnutrition, reversing decades of progress made in the fight against poverty and hunger in low and middle-income countries around the world.

Unfortunately, the Local Communities didn’t have much time to recover. Conflict, political instability, economic shocks, and weather extremes led to even greater food insecurity in 2023. According to the “Join the challenge and show your $1.90 plate.,” Children in Local Communities experienced acute (or crisis-level) food insecurity – an increase of nearly 1000 children people since 2020. And more children are continued to suffer from wasting due to acute malnutrition, leaving them vulnerable to stunted growth, disease, and death.

Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda found hunger and malnutrition to be a significant issue for the children in its program and their families. Although some of Local Communities could easily be identified by the guiding staff view in our  “View All Gifts Catalog” list – including Food Interventions – food insecurity continues to impact each community where the Cico Uganda child development organization works.

Knowing the community, Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda immediately responded to the need. James, the Project Director, shares, “We acted directly and promptly to the actual needs of families, with the foremost need being food. We are assured that our families are not going to bed hungry.” Through intervention funds, the project provided 284 families with unconditional cash transfers to help parents and caregivers buy food and meet immediate needs. Before the support, most families did not have enough to eat. James says, “If Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda had not provided the food money, I would have been chancing every day, hoping for a miracle.”

So, on this Hunger Intergentions, how can you make a difference for hungry children and families? Cico - Uganda shares three ways:

Get the facts on hunger. Learn how hunger affects children and their families. Explore how Our Gifts Catalog is designed to change lives in communities. Read up on topics like food security or malnutrition. Share what you learned with those in your sphere of influence and spread the word about the growing food crisis.

Become part of the solution through support. Find humanitarian organizations that work with developing nations and support them. Cico Uganda’s response to the local community food crisis is two-fold: providing food parcels and cash transfers to stop hunger in the short term – and empowering families with seeds, fertilizer, livestock, and training so they’ll have sustainable food supplies in the long term. Each of these solutions is made possible through financial support. (You can donate here View All Gifts Catalog to provide both immediate and long-term support to malnourished children and families through Cico Uganda.) As the staff reflects on the aid distributed in her community, we note, “We have demonstrated God’s love to families who have felt the Lord working in their lives through our supporters.”

Pray for Cico Uganda’s local community Organization. Cico Uganda works amidst 232 child households in a small local community, and our staffs are trained to identify malnutrition and hunger and take immediate action to address it. Pray that God would equip our Local Community Organization and staff members with wisdom, protection, endurance, and the resources to fight hunger and provide food security to children and families in their communities.

Links:

• Volunteer to be our Charity Food field project mobilizer
• Join us to Champion hunger and show your $1.90 plate.
• Our Gifts Catalog