The Hunger Project

Founded in 1977, The Hunger Project (THP) is a global, non-profit, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world poverty. The Hunger Project has partnered with grassroots people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, to develop effective bottom-up strategies, and has developed three critical elements, that when combined, empower people to make rapid progress in overcoming hunger and poverty, including:

• Mobilizing People At The Grassroots Level To Build Self-Reliance: The Hunger Project trains women and men equipping them with the skills, knowledge and methods used needed to take self-reliant actions to improve their lives and conditions in their communities, urging people not to wait to be rescued, but to take action now to meet their basic needs. The hunger project has created a vision level workshop that allows people to create their own vision for the future, commit to achieving it, and outline the actions that are needed for it to succeed, known as the Vision, Commitment, and Action Workshop (VCAW).
• Empowering Women as Key Change Agents: Women bear almost all responsibilities of meeting basic needs, yet, are systematically denied the resources, information, and freedom of action they need in fulfilling this responsibility. Around the world, millions of people eat two or three times a day, but a significant percentage of women eat just once. Research has shown that when women are supported and empowered, all of society benefits. Hence, The Hunger Project has created programs, wherever they work, that aims at supporting women and building their capacity.
• Forging Partnerships With Local Governments: The Hunger Project works in partnership with local government bodies to ensure that they are effective, include the leadership of women, are directly accountable to local people, and provide access to information and resources.

I have included a link to The Hunger Project's website below. 

http://www.thp.org/