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2005 ACTION AGAINST HUNGER ANNUAL REPORT

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2005 ACTION AGAINST HUNGER ANNUAL REPORT

F100TherapeuTic milk formula,developed and lefT unpaTenTed

by acf’s scienTific commiTTee,has revoluTionized TheTreaTmenT of severe acuTemalnuTriTion, slashingmorTaliTy raTes and saving lives

800,000children were affecTed by The crises ThaT hiT mali and niger during 2005,suffering droughT, reduced access To food, and losses of animals andlivelihoods. in mali alone, The malnuTriTion raTe reached fifTeen percenT;raTes of Ten percenT consTiTuTe an emergency. such cyclical crises willonly reoccur wiThouT invesTmenTs in longer-Term measures

30days is all iT Takes To save The life of a sTarving child. Through a rigorous seT ofnuTriTional and medical proTocols, ourpioneering work in The TreaTmenT of severe acuTe malnuTriTion can save people who arehours away from dying. our TherapeuTicfeeding cenTers sTabilize a paTienT’s physicaldeTerioraTion, rehabiliTaTe meTabolicfuncTions, and rebalance a paTienT’sphysiology, preparing The way for recovery

6,000inTernaTional and naTional sTaff work for acfTo ensure The success of our global programs

The earThquake inpakisTan claimedover sevenTyThousand lives,injured moreThan a hundredThousand people, and caused Thecollapse ofbeTween sixTy and one hundredpercenT ofThe buildings around TheepicenTer. as Thehimalayan winTer approached, Theu.n. esTimaTedThaT The numberof people lefThomeless was

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years of civil warhave ravaged sudan,where Two millionpeople have beenkilled, and fourmillion have beendisplaced.

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Letter from theExeuctive Director

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Letter from the President

Board of Directors/ Advisory Council

Our Programs

Highlights Emergency Response Nutrition Water and Sanitationin Haiti and Guatemala

Food Security:Farming In Bags

Health: We AdvocateBreastfeeding

Advocacy:Working In PoliticallyCharged Zimbabwe

Contributors

Financials

Where We Work

In-Kind Contributions

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he year 2005 was a year o growth or Action Against Hunger in our eorts to eliminate hungerin the world. And the year put us to the test with aseemingly endless series o natural disasters.

We were on the rontlines racing to beat thearrival o winter ollowing the major earthquake that struck Pakistan in October. We provided ood, tents, and waterto those rendered homeless by the magnitude 7.6 quake.

We continued our eorts to rebuild in Sri Lanka andIndonesia ater the December 2004 tsunami, moving tothe rehabilitation phase in which we’re providing the toolsnecessary to restart shing and arming activities. And we

warned the world o impending droughts in Mali, Niger,and the Horn o Arica through our early warning systemsthat constantly monitor water, crop, and nutrition status.

Tese activities—demonstrating our improved emergency response capacity—were a result o the cooperative eorts o the ACF International Network, comprised o headquartersin New York, London, Paris, Madrid, and, as o August2005, in Montreal. Te ve headquarters work together tomaximize our eorts by pooling resources across borders. InPakistan, or example, led by the New York headquarters,

we were able to bring in sta variously overseen by ourNew York, Paris, London, and Montreal oces; monetary resources rom New York, Paris, and Madrid; and suppliesrom Paris and New York. Te result: We were on the grounddelivering assistance within 48 hours o the earthquake.

During 2005, we also saw positive changes in the countries where we work that enabled us to grow. Te DemocraticRepublic o the Congo prepared or elections scheduledor July 2006; the accompanying peace allowed us accessto more areas o the country that were previously insecureand permitted us to shit the emphasis in some o ourprograms rom liesaving to lie rebuilding. Similar changesare happening in southern Sudan with the signing o a peaceaccord in January 2006; reugees are returning to theirhomes, some o whom have not seen their native land in 10to 20 years. Most will need our help to rebuild their lives.

By rebuilding lives we will truly beat hunger—attackingits causes through our programs in nutrition, water andsanitation, ood security, basic health care, and advocacy.Tese provide the tools and training to save lives, to restart

livelihoods, and to restore dignity to more than 4 millionbeneciaries every year.

major event in 2005 or Action Against Hunger was the launching o programs in Pakistan inresponse to the 7.6-magnitude earthquake thatstruck in October. A primary reason that we

were able to accomplish this so quickly and so well is due to our experienced and motivated sta. Action Against Hunger transerred international sta to Pakistanrom throughout its international network, especially those

who had worked in previous disasters including the recenttsunami in Asia. In addition, we ound a large pool o skilledPakistanis ready and willing to join us. With our team inplace, we were able to inaugurate programs quickly thatprovided ood, shelter, and water to tens o thousands o earthquake victims and to continue providing that assistancethroughout the harsh winter even while our sta lived in

tents pitched in six eet o snow and two eet o mud.Our sta comes in many shapes and orms: headquarters,

international, national, and volunteer; administrative,technical, supervisory, nance, and general; ulltime andpart-time. Our sta comes rom all over the world: USA,France, Italy, Congo, Kenya, Cambodia, and more. Our sta includes water engineers, nurses, MBAs, agriculturalists, andlogisticians. Our sta hones its skills in the eld, sometimesrising through our ranks to become program directors orto work as part o our international sta. Our sta alsoincludes volunteers who provide necessary pro bono work at our headquarters.

What ties them all together is their belie in the needto end hunger in the world, their dedication, and theirproessionalism. Put this together with our 26 years o experience ghting hunger in the eld and you get well-runprograms that are adapted to the specic needs o beneciariesliving in a variety o environments and under many dierentconditions. Everyone’s exemplary and requently selfessperormance explains how our modest resources assist morethan 4 million beneciaries every year.

LETTER fROm ThE ExEcUTivE diREcTOR LETTER fROm ThE PREsidENT

Cathy SkoulaExecutive Director

Burton K. HaimesPresident

Cathy Skoula Executive Director

Operations

David Blanc Program Director

Roger Persichino Desk Ocer

Marie-Sophie Simon

Nutrition Coordinator

Devrig Velly Food Security Coordinator

Jeanette Bailey Oce Assistant/Operations Assistant

Finance

Patrick Mouton Finance Director

Nelger Rios Accountant

Hamouta Yattara Field Comptroller

Human Resources

Philippe Rosen Human Resources Director

Kiera Downes-Vogel Human Resources Coordinator

Sarah Favorite

Human Resources Administrator

Brendan Tronconi Oce Manager/Human Resources Assistant

Development and Communications

Randall Chamberlain Development andCommunications Director

John Sauer Communications Manager

James Phelan Website and Database Manager

Erica Sackin Development andCommunications Coordinator

BOARd Of diREcTORs

Burton K. Haimes, ChairPartner, Orrick, Herrington& Sutclie LLP

Raymond Debbane, Vice ChairPresident, Te Invus Group, LLC

Joseph G. Audi , reasurerPresident and CEO,InterAudi Bank

Alexis Azria Writer

Henri Barguirdjian President, Gra USA

Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo President, Enriquez-BocoboConstructs

Yves-André Istel Senior Advisor, Rothschild, Inc.

Ketty Maisonrouge President, Ketty Maisonrouge& Company, Inc.

Daniel Py President,Medical-Instill echnologies

Patrick Siegler-Lathrop PSL Conseil

Cathy Skoula , Secretary (ex-ocio)Executive Director,

Action Against Hunger USA

AdvisORy cOUNciL

Christian Blanckaert Président Directeur Général,Hermès

Harold A. Bornstein Vice President,Charles H. Greenthal & Co.

Olivier Cassegrain Managing Director, Longchamp

Sabine Cassel

Prof. Michael Golden Proessor Emeritus, AberdeenUniversity

Iman Impala Inc.–Iman Cosmetics

Frank McCourt Author

Achim Moeller Achim Moeller Fine Art

Robert W. Rudzki President, KIBAN Corporation

Edward M. Sermier Vice President, CAO andCorporate Secretary, CarnegieCorporation o New York

Rick Smilow President, Te Instituteo Culinary Education (ICE)

Dr. Ronald Waldman Proessor, School o Public Health,Columbia University

Jessica Weber President, Jessica Weber Design

Wendy C. Weiler Partner, Argosy Partners

Nina S. Zagat Co-Founder and Co-Chair,Zagat Survey

Tim Zagat Co-ounder, Co-Chair & CEO,Zagat Survey

TAUsA hEAdqUARTERs sTAff

Action AgainstHunger’s programsensure eectiveassistance by targetingthe most vulnerableand working directly

with communities todevelop strategies thatrestore dignity andsel-suciency or thelong term.

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Action Against Hunger’s programs reach more than 4 millionpeople each year. Yet with an estimated 852 million peoplesuering rom hunger and some 1.1 billion people lackingsucient drinking water, much work remains to be done.

Action Against Hunger’s innovative approach integratesnutrition, water and sanitation, ood security, basic healthcare, and advocacy programs.

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WhERE WE WORK

ThE Acf iNTERNATiONAL NETWORK

Action Against Hunger USA is part o the ACF

International Network, named or the originalmember o the network, Action contre la Faim,or ACF, ounded in 1979 in Paris. oday, thenetwork consists o ve independent organizations:

Action Against Hunger USA (ACF-USA) in New York; Action contre La Faim (ACF-France) inParis; Acción contra el Hambre (ACF-Spain) inMadrid; Action Against Hunger UK (ACF-UK)in London; and Action Contre la Faim/Action

Against Hunger Canada (ACF-Canada) inMontréal. Te network shares an overall visiono a world without hunger, and the ve memberorganizations collaborate closely, sharing humanresources, logistics, and technical capacity. Eachcountry program is managed by one o the vemember organizations.

NUTRiTiON

Our Terapeutic Feeding Centers save the lives o severely malnourished children and adults who may be just hoursaway rom death. Action Against Hunger developed, eldtested, and pioneered the now widely used therapeutic

milk ormula F100, which has decreased the mortality rateo severely malnourished children under the age o 5 romas high as 25 percent to as low as 5 percent. We also operateSupplemental Feeding Centers, distributing nutritionally balanced ood supplies to treat malnutrition beore itbecomes lie-threatening.

WATER ANd sANiTATiON

Every year, 2.2 million people, most o them children,die rom diseases associated with unsae drinking water,inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene. Action AgainstHunger provides access to sae drinking water by tappingsprings, drilling wells, and installing wa ter systems. We alsoteach the importance o water and sanitation in preventingdisease, and train local teams to maintain water andsanitation equipment.

fOOd sEcURiTy

reating malnutrition is only the beginning. Action Against Hunger combines emergency relie with programsthat develop dependable sources o ood and income.By providing seeds, tools, and training programs orincome-generating activities such as arming, gardening,

animal breeding, shing, small-scale retailing, and oodconservation, we work to help communities attain long-term sel-suciency.

hEALTh

Hunger and disease are inextricably linked. Action Against Hunger’s

sta includes experts on the medical aspects o malnutrition, tailoringour treatment to ensure that malnourished children and their amiliesreceive not only the ood they need to regain their health but alsomedical treatment or diseases associated with malnutrition. We alsointegrate health initiatives into all o our other programs, and are on thecutting edge o research on the links between HIV/AIDS and hunger.

AdvOcAcy

Action Against Hunger continually analyzes the undamental causeso hunger and publicizes our ndings to government ocials,international organizations, and the public. Our advocacy and publicawareness eorts aim to eect institutional and cultural changes tohelp create a world without hunger.

OUR PROgRAms

Argentina

Colombia

Haiti

MontreaL HEAdqUARTERS

new York HEAdqUARTERS

Mali

Ivory CoastLiberiaSierra LeoneGuinea

Niger

Chad

North Sudan

SouthSudan

DemocraticRepublic

o the Congo

Ethiopia Somalia

Kenya

UgandaBurundiMalawi

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Angola

Iran Aghanistan

ajikistan

North Caucasus

Georgia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Nepal

Sri Lanka

MyanmarLaos

Cambodia

Philippines

Mongolia

Indonesia

Palestinianerritories

Pakistan

Our comprehensive,cost-eective approachto global hunger delivers

a range o community-centered solutions topopulations in crisis

4billion people lacksufficienT drinking waTer

million peoplebenefiTed from

acTion againsThunger’slife-savingprograms in2005

852million people sufferfrom hunger

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highLighTs: 2005REsPONdiNg TO dEvAsTATiON iN PAKisTAN

Action Against Hunger’s most dauntingchallenge during 2005 was the launchingo programs in Pakistan at a time o extremeurgency. On October 8, a 7.6-magnitudeearthquake killed an estimated 73,000 peopleand leveled villages across Aghanistan, India,and Pakistan, with Pakistan the most aected by ar. Te United Nations estimated that 4 millionpeople were aected, whereas 2.5 million werelet homeless in Pakistan. Teir needs were vast,including blankets, drinking water, ood, and

winterized tents. Complicating the emergency was a Himalayan winter expected to arrive inull orce at any moment.

Within a week we had established program

headquarters in Islamabad and had fown 30tons o ood and water supplies to desperatebeneciaries. During the next ew months wedistributed shelter items (blankets, tents) andhygiene kits (soap, toothpaste) and establishedemergency water routes to more than 33,000people in hard-hit and dicult-to-access areassurrounding Battagram and Bala Kot.

Meanwhile, temperatures in Pakistanhovered between -2 and 10 degrees Celsius, theground alternated between rozen solidity andmud, snow ell heavily, and cases o pneumoniaamong the displaced tripled. Landslides blockedroads, so our team used helicopters to reachremote villages in Allai and Kahgan Valleys

where we distributed 25 tons o ood per day throughout the winter. Some reugees managedto reach camps at lower altitudes where weinstalled latrines and sanitation acilities. Atyear-end, our eorts continued.

WE PiONEER NEW TEchNOLOgy

In 2002, the U.S. Agency or International Assistance (USAID), in collaboration withother agencies in the U.S. and Canada, initiated the SMAR Initiative. SMAR is anacronym or Standardized Monitoring and Assessment o Relie and ransitions.

Te idea behind SMAR is to standardize measurements o humanitarian crises so thatcalls or aid will be seen as authoritative and so that donors can assess relative needs. Inaddition, as indicators o a crisis recede, the technology can signal that the emergency haspassed. SMAR sotware analyzes three measures o a troubled community: death rates,instances o malnutrition in children younger than ve and levels o ood security.

In 2005, the creators o SMAR asked Action Against Hunger to eld-test its new sotware, and we helped rene the initiative’s technology in Chad. In doing so, we alsohelped create the protocol or using SMAR, and now the creators want us to teach thatprotocol to other aid organizations.

OUR PROgRAms REscUEd ThOUsANds fROm sTARvATiON

Our name inorms the world that Action Against Hunger eeds beneciaries—morethan 4 million every year. But our most notable skill is giving lie back to the dyingvictims o starvation through our internationally recognized protocols: our TerapeuticFeeding Centers (FCs) provide an intensive month-long set o medical proceduresand nutritional protocols designed or those desperately sick beneciaries suering romsevere acute malnutrition; our Supplemental Feeding Centers (SFCs) are designed orthe moderately malnourished and provide additional rations or those who need helpbut aren’t on the brink o death. In 2005, the FCs and SFCs supervised by Action

Against Hunger’s U.S. headquarters alone treated 51,550 patients. Some 84.2% o thesebeneciaries were treated or moderate malnutrition. On average, we treated 680 childrena month in our FCs during 2005 and 11,000 in our SFCs. We operated 17 FCs and69 SFCs on average during the year in all seven countries where we work, and in March2006 we opened several SFCs and baby-eeding tents in Pakistan.

In 2005, the beneciaries o our eeding centers were distributed as ollows: Chad,1%; D.R. Congo East, 15%; D.R. Congo West, 10%; Kenya, 20%; South Sudan, 1%;

ajikistan, 22%; Uganda, 31%

OUR gALA hONOREd dEsmONd TUTU

On November 11, at our annual World Food Day Gala in New York City, producer/director erry George (Hotel Rwanda) presentedthe Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award to ArchbishopDesmond utu. We honored the Nobel prize-winning archbishopor his eorts not only toachieve political equality but also to ulll basichuman needs such asadequate ood, clean

water, and healthcare.In addition to hearing

rom Archbishop utuand Mr. George, 350attendees were entertainedby World Music diva

Angélique Kidjo and heard deeply elt, rst-hand testimony aboutour programs in Arica rom Action Against Hunger’s National Sta Member o the Year, Aimé Lukelo, our Food Security Coordinatorin Kinshasa, D.R. Congo.

Te sold-out, glittering, ormal evening raised more than $500,000

or our programs rom ticket sales, an auction, and a wishing wellthat elicited specic donations or such essentials as drinking wells,medicines, and kits or arming and shing activities.

ThE mEdiA fOcUs ON OUR gLOBAL EffORTs

In the summer o 2005, to avert a amine that the UN warned couldaect a population o 2.5 million—including 800,000 children—

Action Against Hunger distributed more than 4,000 tons o ood inMali and Niger. A prolonged drought had increased the vulnerability o pastoralists who wander in search o water and grazing landor their livestock. In addition, our international network set upSupplementary and Terapeutic Feeding Centers to treat severeinant malnutrition, and we constructed and rehabilitated watersources or people and animals.

One o our longstanding volunteers, media consultant and V news reporter Kiran Khalid, advised Action Against Hunger onour media strategy during the crisis. Working with Action AgainstHunger’s Communications sta, it was decided that the crisis inMali and Niger deserved a segment on V newscasts, so Kiranvolunteered to travel there as a reporter, paying her own way. Ournetwork o volunteers led us to cameraman Richard Rowely, whosigned up to travel with Kiran, bringing his own editing equipmentso that he and Kiran could assemble segments in the eld.

As a result, or the rst time we produced our own V news spots.

Ms. Khalid’s reports appeared on CNN International, and Reutersmade them available to local V stations around the world. Aterthat, our intrepid news reporter and cameraman edited their ootageinto a short lm, Te Hunger Gap, which was honored by inclusionin the annual UN Film Festival in New York City in April 2006.

WE RALLiEd iN WAshiNgTON

On October 15, we held a public exhibition at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., in support o World Food Day, a UN designated day whichbrings attention to the issue o world hunger. Borrowing a tradition begun by our Paris oce, volunteers set up 50 standing silhouettes in anopen space. Ten, beginning at noon and continuing until 3 p.m., every our seconds we sounded a gong, and a volunteer overturned one o thesilhouettes. Tis symbolized the reality that a hunger-related death occurs every our seconds. Ater each o the 50 silhouettes had been toppled,they were set back up again, and the process was repeated.

Te Congressional Hunger Center, a bipartisan anti-hunger training and awareness organization co-chaired by Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO)and Rep. James P. McGovern (D-MA), helped us arrange this event, and Rep. McGovern, a th-term Congressional veteran, spoke ervently atthe rally about the challenge posed by world hunger.

OUR iNvALUABLE vOLUNTEERs

We are deeply grateul or the proessional and general support wereceive rom our growing network o volunteers who help us in more

ways than we can count. In 2005, or example:

• Diverse proessionals gave us legal advice, while others kept ourcomputers running.

• Proessional newscasters volunteered to assemble video reportson our operations in the eld and managed to get their reportshighlighted in media newscasts worldwide.

• Other pros designed and edited our annual report, ourbrochures, our website, and our e-newsletters. Tey lent theirexpertise to our marketing and undraising, helping us producea 15-old increase in our online donations between 2004and 2005.

• In January, restaurateurs volunteered a portion o their receiptsin support o our rescue eorts in response to 2004’s tsunamithat devastated Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

• And general support volunteers arrived daily in our ocesto assist us with such tedious chores as data entry andenvelope stung.

During 2005, interest in helping our programs grew so intensethat we initiated semi-monthly volunteer nights at which we describeour work and explain how newcomers can help us. Te generosity o all our volunteers who contribute their time and labor was andcontinues to be o incalculable value.

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51,550severely and moderaTelymalnourished paTienTs were TreaTed

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feeding cenTers in 2005

Tese ‘beore-and-ater’ photosare o a little girl named Habiba

who was treated or 30 days atan ACF therapeutic eedingcenter in Mandera, Kenya—apowerul visual illustration o the lie-saving work our teamscarry out every day. Sta and

beneciary at an ACF Terapeutic

Feeding Centerin Kinshasa,

Congo.

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With programs and sta in more than 40countries, Action Against Hunger is well-positioned to respond quickly.

For example, when the catastrophictsunami o 2004 ripped through Southand Southeast Asia, killing hundreds o

thousands and wreaking unprecedenteddestruction, our emergency teams arrived

within 48 hours in the hardest-hit areaso Sri Lanka and Indonesia. In the rst15 days, we dispatched ve aircrat thatdelivered 150 tons o supplies. Our water-and-sanitation teams helped restore watersupplies by providing emergency resh

water as well as cleaning water sourcespolluted by the tsunami waves. We alsoestablished disaster preparedness programsin Aceh designed to reduce the vulnerability o Indonesians to uture foods.

RAPid REsPONsE cAPABiLiTiEs:

POsT-EARThqUAKE PAKisTAN

With emergency teams on call, andessential supplies stored at staging grounds

in Europe, we can travel switly to anywherein the world when the need arises. Ouremergency response team is made up o highly trained proessionals, experts indisaster relie and rapid response. Our teammembers are on-call 24/7, ready to act as

soon as they’re needed. Once dispatched toan emergency, the response team undertakesrapid assessments, dening where and how to distribute relie, and to evaluate whatkind o aid is most needed.

Action Against Hunger tested itsemergency response capabilities ollowingthe devastating 7.6-magnitude earthquakethat struck Pakistan in October 2005.

Within hours, we dispatched a surveyor tothe scene and began assembling a team toassist the estimated 2.5 million Pakistanis inneed o aid to eed themselves and to survivethe severe Himalayan winter. Te team rstembarked on an assessment o two areas

within the damaged region. Answeringlogistical questions, such as how to transportood aid, supplies, and sta, as well as how

Our International Network maintains an emergency response team withan array o capabilities in surveillance, rapid response, and emergency preparedness.

Disasters oten strike repeatedly in the same region, because o recurring weather patterns, political instability, poor inrastructure, and poverty.Te most vulnerable and impoverished countries generally suer the mostrom such emergencies.

Trough disaster surveillance and rapid response systems, we canmonitor emergency hot spots, build buer stocks o potential supplies,and put sta on the ground, oten beore a crisis hits. We carry out thismonitoring in part with a Geographic Inormation System (GIS) thatproduces a computerized analysis o actors such as available pasture,agricultural production, population movements, market prices o stapleoods, and water sources. GIS integrates this complex data into illustrativemaps o our program areas.

cycLicAL EmERgENciEs: REsPONdiNg iN mALi ANd NigER

In late 2004 our GIS data warned us o a looming nutritional crisis inMali, and by early 2005 we had alerted Mali’s government o troubleahead. At the time, Action Against Hunger’s nutritional surveys oundrates o global acute malnutrition at 15%. Internationally, a rate o 10%

constitutes an emergency. Te “hunger gap,” a span o months betweenthe depletion o last year’s harvest and the reaping o this year’s crops, is achronic problem in Mali and many other countries. For Mali in 2005, thehunger gap began much earlier than usual, and Action Against Hunger

joined other humanitarian organizations in calling on the internationalcommunity to address the situation beore it turned into a crisis.

We’ve been present in Mali since 1996, and we responded to thegrowing malnutrition rates with programs in emergency nutrition andood security targeted at the most vulnerable populations in the regions o Gao and Kidal. We also expanded our emergency services in neighboringNiger, a country acing a similar nutritional crisis, ar in advance o broadaction by the international community. Our surveillance and responseeorts helped successully mitigate the impact o the crisis, and ouremergency programs reached more than 276,000 beneciaries.

cATAsTROPhic EmERgENciEs: TsUNAmi-AffEcTEd AsiA

While some emergencies, such as a hunger gap, are cyclical and possibleto anticipate, others arrive with no warning, oten causing catastrophicdamage. When disaster strikes, the most eective aid delivers immediaterelie—the rst 24 to 48 hours are critical or people displaced, injured,or otherwise aected by natural disasters and large-scale emergencies.

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After more than 25years of respondingto situations arisingfrom war, conict,and natural disaster,Action AgainstHunger has learnedthat the mosteffective responseto an emergency isto be there before ithappens.

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(Clockwise rom top) Malnourished children being treated at an ACF Terapeutic FeedingCenter in Malawi; ACF sta prepare the pre-mix or the nutritional ood at a Supplementary Feeding Center in Malawi; Boxes o the therapeutic F-100 milk arrive or beneciaries in southSudan; ACF airlits vital supplies to earthquake-ravaged regions o Pakistan.

to coordinate inormation and resources with other aidorganizations working in the region, is central to theimplementation o eective, ecient programs.

Trough an assessment o the damaged region, ourteam o experts identied the hard-hit and dicult-to-access areas surrounding Battagram and Bala Kotand the mountain valleys o Allai and Kaghan as mostappropriate or our emergency relie programs. Ourlogistics coordinators had to determine the astest,saest way to transport ood and supplies to desperatebeneciaries. With the rugged, mountainous terrainurther compromised by landslides and other earthquakeallout and many o our target areas ar rom roadsand unreachable by truck in the best circumstances,helicopters proved the best option to carry out short-term distributions. We distributed emergency hygienekits, blankets, and tents, in addition to ood and watersupplies. Like the choice o helicopters or transport,our emergency response team had to use the results o their assessments and expert knowledge to make switdecisions in all aspects o program ormation, a processthat usually requires months o careul planning under

non-emergency circumstances. Action Against Hunger’s emergency response

initiatives proved to be a signicant part o our work in 2005. Disaster surveillance, rapid-responsemechanisms, and emergency preparedness capabilitiesplace Action Against Hunger at the oreront o disaster relie. All o our emergency response programsinclude longer-term components designed to providetraining and to help local communities better prepareor and mitigate uture crises. For survivors o naturaldisasters as well as chronic emergencies o drought andmalnutrition, sel-suciency is the most powerul toolor rebuilding ater disaster. n

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On January 9, 2005, a peace agreementbetween the Government o Sudan and themain southern rebel organization, the SudanPeople’s Liberation Movement, ended a ercecivil war that ravaged southern Sudan or 21years. An estimated two million Sudanese losttheir lives during the civil war while some ourmillion have been displaced.

And while the peace agreement has raisedhopes or greater peace and stability in southernSudan, restoring sel-suciency has proved tobe a daunting task. Action Against Hunger’steams have long carried out extensive surveysdocumenting the nutritional problems in thesouth; indeed, our teams provide the only comprehensive understanding available o malnutrition in southern Sudan, which ormsthe basis o our broader advocacy eorts inthe region. Our surveys have consistently uncovered global rates o malnutritionthat rank among the highest in the world,and whereas the peace process is a crucialdevelopment, it hasn’t meant greater healthand security as o yet—in act, thousands o Sudanese have begun returning home only tond new problems and scarce resources.

Acknowledging the challenge , in 2005 Action Against Hunger began extensive nutritionaltraining o local and international non-governmental humanitarian organizations,teaching our state-o-the-art protocols orcuring and preventing malnutrition to

international and national aid workers alike.In addition, we opened acilities in southernSudan with two new Terapeutic FeedingCenters (FCs) and Home reatment Centersin the Bahr-el Ghazal region.

Malnutrition is lie-threatening because it’soten associated with other complications suchas dehydration, hypoglycemia, hypothermia,and inection. Malnourished patients areparticularly vulnerable to inection because o the poor infammatory response, changes inbody composition, loss o energy reserves, andvitamin and mineral deciencies associated

with hunger.o treat these conditions, our FCs orm

the core o our emergency rescue programs insouthern Sudan and elsewhere. At our FCs,treatment is divided into three phases:

• Initial Acute Phase : We begin eedingpatients immediately with the F-75therapeutic milk, which is the only ood amalnourished child’s system can tolerate.(Sugar water is sometimes given tochildren as an initial stop-gap while theF-75 ormula is being prepared.) Smalldoses o F-75 are given eight to 12 timesa day which restores the body’s basicmetabolic unctions without overtaxing

weakened bio-cellular mechanisms. I diseases are present, the patient receivesappropriate medications. Tis phase canlast a week or more.

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• Intermediate Phase : Tis phase lasts or our days and involves ve to eight meals daily. Teonly ood given is F-100 therapeutic milk, which has a greater concentration than F-75 haso energy-supplying nutrients, lipids, and proteins. Both the F-100 and F-75 ormulae weredeveloped by members o our Scientic Committee and eld tested by ACF.

• Rehabilitation Phase : Tis lasts or 15 to 20 days. A patient’s meals are cut back to six a day,and patients one-year-old and up are given, along with F-100 milk, a porridge most commonly made rom corn four, soya four, oil, and sugar.

ypically, these three phases together last or one month. Ten, i weight-gain has been satisactory (patients weigh at least 85% o their expected weight), patients are discharged to their homes andasked to return periodically or monitoring during the ollowing three months. Discharged patientsare also enrolled in our Supplementary Feeding Centers (SFCs)—or the treatment o moderatemalnutrition—where they and their amily receive supplemental ood rations to augment thehousehold diet, thereby ensuring that the discharged patient continues to recover.

In 2005, our FCs in southern Sudan cured more than 80% o their beneciaries, most o whom were on the brink o death when they arrived. Some 3% o the children in our FCs suered romsevere medical complications and were reerred to other medical care acilities because o underlying

diseases (malaria or respiratory tract inectionsbeing the most common). Other patientssimply let our program in mid-stream againstour advice—individuals or whom our hometreatment options may be better suited.

Because we require a caretaker to remain with a child throughout treatment in a FCs,amily demands on the caretaker (usually achild’s mother) can sometimes make 30 dayso treatment impossible. So in recent years,

we’ve initiated home treatment programs. A malnourished child must remain at a FCor the rst week o treatment, but ater that,the child’s mother is instructed how to eedher recovering child at home according toour therapeutic regimen o either BP-100 orPlumpy’nut—two ready-to-eat products withthe same nutritional composition as F-100.

Action Against Hunger workers visit the childat home to ensure that recovery is continuing,and the child must return to the FCs weekly so that his or her weight gain can be measuredaccurately. In south Sudan during 2005, ourhome care programs produced a cure ratehigher than 90%.

We’ve seen substantial success at our centersand in our training o other humanitarian

workers in southern Sudan, but malnutritionremains at dangerously high levels. Meanwhile,in addition to curing beneciaries, we’retraining local residents to take over ouroperations so that the community can meet itsown needs without our assistance. In all ourprograms in southern Sudan and elsewhere, we

work to support municipal health structures,coordinate with existing government services,and build capacity in local institutions toensure that our programs are sustained over thelong run—long ater we’ve let the area. We’llcede administrative control just as soon as weeel condent that local institutions will beable to continue the work we’ve begun, thus,recruiting and training local sta is an integralpart o all o our nutrition programs.n

Action Against Hunger’s

methods for identifying

and rescuing starving

populations have

become the world’s

standard. The World

Health Organization, for

example, recommends

our therapeutic rescue

protocols in the treatment

of malnutrition. We

replicate these procedureseverywhere we operate,

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Sudan in 2005.

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In developingcountries, 2.2 millionpeople, most of themchildren, die everyyear from diseasesassociated withunsafe drinking water,inadequate sanitation,and poor hygiene.

(1) Displaced communities in northern Uganda

celebrate the inauguration of a new ACF hand

pump; (2) ACF’s water and sanitation teams

operate a drilling rig to create a borehole

for clean water in Uganda; (3) Our teams

construct water sources and distribution

networks for hurricane-affected communities

in Haiti; (4) ACF’s emergency interventions

ensure access to clean water, a rst line of

defense in mitigating a natural disaster.

A community’s health and nutrition require alasting supply o clean water and the knowledgeo how to use and care or it properly. People,o course, as well as arm animals and crops,require water to avoid dehydration—which ina ew hours can kill a child locked in a hot caror an athlete exercising vigorously in intensesun. Equally important, the water must beclean because communicable diseases thrive indirty water. Contamination spreads cholera,hepatitis A and E, meningitis, polio, shigella,

and typhoid ever. Intestinal parasites lurk inimpure water waiting to colonize the intestineso unsuspecting drinkers, and mosquito-borne illnesses including malaria and yellow ever can spread when stagnant ground waterallows insects to breed. And as every medicalproessional knows, the single most eective

way to prevent the spread o disease is to scrubyour hands thoroughly using soap and clean

water. One study concluded that simply havingpeople wash their hands could save the lives o more than a million children each year.

All o our programs at Action AgainstHunger require the availability o clean water.

When it isn’t available, we bring it in—by truck, i necessary, but also by tapping naturalsources such as springs, aquiers, lakes, andstreams. Our teams dig wells (when water is

near the surace) or boreholes (when it’s deep),and even construct distribution networks.

Water and sanitation is at the core o allour programs, but during 2005 we respondedswitly to emergencies caused by hurricanesin Haiti and Guatemala that destroyed

water-and-sanitation inrastructure in many communities.

During July, Haiti endured winds andtorrential rains that caused mudslides anddemolished local water-and-sanitation

networks—which were already damaged romrains earlier in the year. In the hardest-hitcommunities, Haitians had no sae drinking

water, and drainage systems were overwhelmed.During 2005 in Port-de-Paix, or example,

Action Against Hunger set up 37 water sourcesand 77 latrines to serve 40,000 beneciaries.Tere and elsewhere in Haiti, we also installed

wastewater treatment plants and drinking water ountains, and we distributed kits orhouse-cleaning and hygiene.

In October, a hurricane struck Guatemala,severely damaging local inrastructure andleaving isolated communities without sae

water, ood, or basic health care. In response, we sent 10 water tanks, 100 kilograms o water-treatment chemicals, electric generators, and

water pumps. We were at one point supplying

ve liters o water per day to 50,000 people. Years o experience, however, have taught us

that simply creating and rehabilitating waterstructures is insucient. In order to ensure thata source o clean water is sustained and that the

water is used eectively, we must also educatecommunities about keeping their water, hands,and environment sanitary. In both Haiti andGuatemala, thereore, in addition to buildingand rehabilitating water-and-sanitationsystems, we organized and trained local water

committees to manage and maintain thosesystems independently.

Tough each o our humanitarianinterventions presents its own particularchallenges, our response in Haiti andGuatemala typies our approach everywhere,

which combines rescue, rehabilitation, andtraining to ensure sel-suciency. Year ateryear, those procedures prove successul. n

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Action Against Hunger has been active inUganda since 1997, and in 2004 we launcheda pilot project in microgardening at two localcamps, which we expanded to ve camps during2005. Te project involved planting vegetableseeds in large polyethylene grain sacks, whichare abundant in the camps and inexpensive.Gardeners received as many as ve sacks andplaced banana stems in each, propped upright

with rocks. Ater lling the bags with soil,gardeners removed the stems and planted seedsin the top o the bag as well as in the sides,maximizing the productive surace o the bag.

Altogether, more than 2,800 sack gardens wereplanted during 2005. We trained participantsusing a demonstration garden in each camp,teaching construction o microgardens,maintenance, and vegetable harvesting. Aterthe training, we gave each household a wateringcan and a kit containing seeds or carrots,climbing beans, onions, spinach, and tomatoes.Te climbing beans were intended as a solutionto the lack o space in displacement camps:Beneciaries used their huts as supports or thetomato and bean vines.

Nearly all the participants were women, eacho whom constructed sack gardens near herhousehold. Te gardeners took soil and rocksrom nearby areas and built ences using localmaterials, such as thorny bushes or bamboo.

Maintenance was minimal. Watering,planting, and weeding typically required littlemore than two hours a week. ACF ood security sta made weekly visits to monitor the gardensand help troubleshoot.

Te project had three primary goals:

• o decrease beneciaries exposure toinsecurity by reducing travel times (i.e.,traveling rom homes to adjacent sack gardens rather than to elds in thecountryside, where there is risk o assaultor abduction by rebels is great)

• o decrease the time spent on arming(e.g., the need or weeding wasminimized)

• And to increase the ood security optionsor households (i.e., they could sell thevegetables they grew, they could improvetheir own diets, and they could provide abit o work or landless or idle amilies).

Camp residents ound the project to be odd,but they participated nonetheless, and thegardens proved notably successul. Spinach,carrots, and onions grew especially well. Allparticipants used the produce rom theirgardens to improve their amilies’ diets, andnearly hal were able to sell some. Te mostsuccessul gardeners prepared as many as 60meals rom their gardens, and the majority o

participants plan to continue sack gardeningin the uture. Many reported that they hadno other land to plant and were relieved tohave more ood or their children. Tey alsopraised the ease o maintaining the gardensand o monitoring them to prevent loss o theirproduce to thieves. Many participants alsoound the sack gardens to be decorative.

Among the seeds we distributed, carrots were new to many recipients, but childrenloved them. Some parents reported that theirchildren ate more enthusiastically whenevercarrots were part o the meal. When we rstintroduced carrot recipes into our training, themothers cheered.

Our project in Uganda wasn’t the rst tointroduce arming in sacks, but in the wakeo its success, we intend to initiate similarprograms elsewhere. n

hEALTh:WE AdvOcATEBREAsTfEEdiNg

The nutritional and

disease-preventingbenets of breastfeeding

are beyond question. Yet the practice is oftendistrusted in developingcommunities.

Te simplest path to healthy nourishmentor inants worldwide is complicatedby each community’s attitudes towardbreasteeding. Even in the United States,the acceptability o breasteeding seemsto change every generation or so. Te

World Health Organization’s protocolsstress that inants should be breasted orat least the rst six months o lie, even

while adding other liquids and solid oodsater six months. Yet some cultures rownon breasteeding a child who is older thansix months, even though a longer regimenis likely to produce healthier children.

In ajikistan, or instance, our teamhas organized a breasteeding supportgroup that advocates breasteedingamong our beneciaries. In one village, a

woman who was in labor asked an Action Against Hunger midwie to deliver herourth baby. Te midwie persuadedthe mother to allow other women romher community to witness “skin-to-skin” contact ater delivery. Immediately ollowing the birth, the midwie placedthe newborn on the mother’s abdomen.Te baby started to seek the breast, and

with guidance rom the mother and themidwie, the baby started nursing. Te

women who were watching had beenskeptical when the midwie described anewborn’s breasteeding instinct, but thisdemonstration convinced them. Now the

witnesses are helping to educate othermothers in the community. Te skin-to-skin mother, in turn, had bottle-edher previous three children, but she’ssuccessully breasteeding her ourth baby.

One complication in persuadingmothers to breasteed is that numerouscultures in the developing world mistrustcolostrum. During the rst three or ourdays ater a child is born, a mother’sbreasts produce milk that’s high inantibodies, carbohydrates, and proteincalled colostrum. It’s easily digestible,and the nutrition it contains is highly concentrated. It jump-starts a baby’sdigestive system and protects the childrom disease. In addition, when childrensuckle colostrum, the action helps preventengorgement o the mother’s breasts andprompts them to produce milk moreabundantly in the ollowing weeks andmonths.

But colostrum is thicker and moreyellow than the milk that comes later,and many cultures are suspicious o it.Until a mother’s milk becomes more“normal,” they believe that breasteedingtheir children is unhealthy, though in actnewborns benet more rom colostrumthan rom any other ood they could begiven.

Oten, teams organized by Action Against Hunger are able to changecommunity opinions about colostrum.In one culture, or example, herdersperiodically lead their livestock away rom their homes in search o ood and

water, but traditionally a herder will leaveone animal behind or each member o his amily. Sometimes this leads to emalelivestock being separated rom theirnewborns. When this happens, no matterhow the newborn is nourished, it grows

with less hardiness than i it had ed on itsmother’s colostrum, and villagers know it.

When our teams point out that the samedebility can result rom human mothersdepriving their newborns o colostrum,understanding oten dawns and mindsare changed.

Te nutritional and disease-preventingbenets o breasteeding are beyondquestion. Yet the practice is otendistrusted in developing communitiesand sometimes in developed communitiesas well. Nonetheless, none o our eortsis as eective in orestalling diseaseand malnutrition among inants thanpersuading beneciaries to breasteed orthe rst 6 months. n

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An estimated 100,000people have died as aresult of two decadesof conict in northernUganda, with another20,000 abducted byrebels roaming the bush.

As a result, roughly twomillion displaced peopleare crowded into campswith little access to theirformer farmlands. ACF’sfood security programsoffer unique solutions tothis problem.

ACF’s innovative oodsecurity programs oer abroad range o solutionsor generating income andboosting ood production—like this arming associationin the Congo.

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ENTER hUmANiTARiAN AdvOcAcy: Acf REAssERTs ThE NEEd fOR dEPOLiTicizEd Aid

As a humanitarian organization, Action Against Hunger’s mandate is to improve the liveso communities trapped in humanitarian crises—helping amilies get back on their eetthrough our nutrition, water-and-sanitation, ood-security, and health interventions.

But i the larger political context undermines a population’s health and well-being orprolongs a vulnerable community’s exposure to lie-threatening conditions, then ACF iscompelled to address the setting in which our humanitarian programs takes place. Tis is an

essential role o humanitarian advocacy.Humanitarian advocacy enables non-political organizations such as ACF to operate in

broader political arenas while maintaining the core values that make humanitarian actionunique: independent, impartial, non-discriminatory, needs-based assessments o conditionson the ground. Tese are the values that should ground and inorm international assistance—not the shiting agendas o political adversaries.

In Zimbabwe, relie agencies ound themselves trapped between the government and theinternational community’s mutual mistrust while being urther hobbled by the politicizedconditions on the ground. Te result: Humanitarian aid had become so politicized thatit was no longer possible to present impartial data on the scope o the crisis, let alone to

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Delivering more than

assistance: engaging

in advocacy to ensure

long-term humanitarian

outcomes

In short, the basic heath an nutritiona

nees of the popuation ere being

sacrice for poitica ens.

Te past hal decade has been particularly cruelor Zimbabwe. A debilitating mix o drought,hyperinfation, plummeting ood production,soaring unemployment, shortages o consumergoods, among other setbacks have exacerbateda steep economic and social decline. Add tothis a burgeoning health crisis—a sharp dropin health and social services coupled with anHIV/AIDS pandemic—and you have a recipeor a horriying new reality: Lie expectancy inZimbabwe has plunged rom 61 to 34 years ina mere decade and a hal.

o make matters worse, the humanitariandimensions o this crisis have been completely obscured by its politics: Divisive land reormhas produced an impasse o hardened nationaland international positions, mutual suspicions,and nger-pointing that has aggravated thesocial emergency. Te resulting polarizationhas had ruinous consequences or Zimbabwe’sshaky economic health, its already vulnerablepopulations, and its ability to accessinternational assistance given its deterioratingrelationships with the West.

ThE POLiTicAL dimENsiONsOf A hUmANiTARiAN cRisis

Action Against Hunger (ACF) began its ood-security and water-and-sanitation programsin Zimbabwe in 2002, during the height o aregional ood crisis that extended well beyondZimbabwe’s borders. Since then, thanks to

ample ood assistance rom the internationalcommunity, Zimbabwe has managed to avoida spike in its malnutrition rates even thoughmuch o its population remains precariously vulnerable. And while Zimbabwe’s problemsare still largely ramed as a “ood crisis,” thereal threat to the lives and livelihoods o poorZimbabweans is the decimating health crisisand AIDS pandemic that currently claim some170,000 lives a year.

Yet even as the health and economiccontributions to this social emergency mustbe addressed, the political context needlessly prolongs and deepens the crisis.

ACF’s teams began to realize that the

political climate surrounding Zimbabwe andits international reputation was making thehumanitarian situation worse. Regardlesso who was ultimately to blame or thecrisis, its underlying causes were not beingaddressed. Instead, they were overshadowedby the ongoing turmoil and political tensionsstemming rom the land-reorm controversy.Zimbabwe’s emerging status as a pariah stateand its strained relationship with the Westbegan to color the international community’sresponse to the humanitarian crisis, prioritizingpolitical considerations over needs:

• Te cooperation and developmentunding normally available to Zimbabwe

was curtailed, and international assistance was limited to emergency relie.

• Humanitarian as sistance h as beenchanneled exclusively throughinternational organizations, bypassing

support or Zimbabwe’s governmentservices (despite the evidence o whatthis has meant or poor Zimbabweans).

• Te areas resettled during land reorm were excluded rom the main aidpackages, despite the areas’ central rolein ood production, the decimationo needed agricultural supports, andthe resettled population’s ongoingvulnerability.

• Des pite a devastating health crisis—anHIV/AIDS pandemic with one o thehighest death rates in the world—thehealth sector remains acutely under-unded, even by regional standards.

In short, the basic health and nutritionalneeds o the population have been sacriced orpolitical ends, and ACF eared the crisis woulddeteriorate urther i the overall climate werenot addressed.

infuence the design and direction o the humanitarianresponse in Zimbabwe.

What was needed, our analysis said, was to reasserta “shared understanding o the challenges aced by the communities and the priorities o assistance,”lest the vulnerable people o Zimbabwe continue tobe victimized. ACF’s behind-the-scenes advocacy

aims to do just that. We hope to reshape the debateon Zimbabwe’s crisis so that humanitarian action

will be shielded rom politics, and the internationalcommunity’s priorities can tackle the underlying causeso the crisis rather than spar with the regime.

AcTiON AgAiNsT hUNgER’s REcOmmENdATiONsfOR mORE EffEcTivE AssisTANcE

Action Against Hunger’s advocacy made three generalrecommendations or revitalizing the humanitarianresponse in Zimbabwe:

• To the International Community

Western governments must not impose sanctionson governments which adversely aect populationsalready weakened by economic crisis and climateconstraints. Western governments must promotea non-discriminatory approach or assistanceprograms.

• To Government Donors

Rather than react to Zimbabwe’s political issues,donor strategies should integrate socioeconomicanalyses and avoid any orm o discriminationin assistance. Te community o donors shouldpromote humanitarian programs and recovery activities aimed at improving living conditionssustainably or all o Zimbabwe’s vulnerablecommunities.

• To Non-Governmental Organizations

Relie agencies must strive to get out o the politicalarena and give priority to relie, assistance, andrecovery activities. Tis can be achieved throughcompliance with humanitarian principles such asnon-discrimination and impartiality, and throughsharing inormation and analyses related tolivelihood situations.

Engaging in humanitarian advocacy ensures thatorganizations such as ACF can address the tensionsinherent in any political context, and in the end, delivernot only direct assistance but broader humanitarianoutcomes as well. n

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Zimbabwean beneciaries pose in ront o a new source o clean water, built through

Action Against Hunger’s programs

Our ood security and water-and-sanitation

programs in Zimbabweare vital to the vulnerable

communities pictured here,but we can only be eective

i the overall contextensures humanitarian

outcomes.

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Achim and Colette MoellerEllen OdonerMarcy and Paul PeierPierre PottierMandakini and Radhika PuriStephen RishtonBartolomeo Ruspoli

and Aileen Getty Tilo and Angelica SemmelbauerMichael J. ShermanCody J Smith

James C. SturdevantRichard and Phyllis aylor

John Wedge and Jeanne MarkelTe Kenneth S. Battye

Charitable rustTe J.P. Morgan Chase

FoundationTe Georey Gund FoundationCarlton Hill Family

Foundation, Inc.Mahler Family FoundationPickard Circle o Light Fund

o the Community Foundationo Sarasota County

Joel E. Smilow Charitable rust American International SchoolDeutsche Bank KSFSouthwest Family Institute, LLCTelen Reid & Priest LLPTe Vasicek FoundationVermeil Family Fund

WeightWatchers.com, Inc.

$1,000 - $4,999

Anonymous (3)Daniel AgnerChris AhearnRobert Albrecht

John Allain

Mahyar and Fran AmirsalehPhilippe AmouyalRand Angelicola

Aramark Wayne ArchamboFabrizio and Enrica

Arengi-BentivoglioEdward ArredondoRichard and Beverly Bailey Gustavo BardasElliot BarenbaumKahlil BarrageRadord Klotz and Shahnaz

BatmanghelidjRick BaylessLane Beatty Guillaume and Anne BebearSteven BeedeMarianne Belardi

Anthongy Berardo Alexander BernsteinStuart and Andrea BernsteinMichel Berty Michael BillettEddie Birnbrey George BitarTomas BoldmanDavid BowerDouglas BradgonRaymond Brown

William BrownMartha BrumeldMarc BruneNicoletta CacciaKevin CampbellBridget CampomanesKimberly CarterOlivier CassegrainKenneth and Shirley Ceradsky Cheng-Chang ChangDanita Charity Howard Chatzino Stephen and Patrizia ChazenStephen Clemons Sr.David Cockcrot

Adam Cohen Alan D. CohenKaren Cook David and Dera Cooper

Joseph CrainPaul and Caroline Cronson

Jonathan CrumillerCatherine Cusak Martha DaielloPeter DaviesBarbara de PortagoNina Del RioTomas and Kathleen Delaney Cobie Delespinasse

Adriana DeloguPatty Detroit

Jerome and Elinor DeutschRory DeutschLayla DibaHoward DickerStephen Ledoux and Julie DienChris Do

John Dougherty

John DzelkalnsKevin Eberly Francisco Echegaray Katherine Eggemeier

Jonas Fajgenbaum Jerey FiarmanGabe FinkeSteven and Allison FischLaura FisherRandall Fisher

Adam and Olivia Flatto Jody FleischerClaudia FlemingHeather Foley Roger and Mary Lou FosterSteven Cancro and Lidia FoutoBurt FujishimaShawna Gage

Jean-Louis Galliot

Adam Garcia Jed GareldElisa GattiStanley and Dorothy Gawle

Wendy Gelbart Yetta and Irving GeszelRaymond GietzLucille GigantiClarice Gilesom and Beverly GillettDolores Gluck Ronald GoldbergerMireille and Hubert GoldschmidtMaynard GravesNicholas GroombridgeErik and Christiane GrotnessIrene HabernickelRobert HallTomas and Diana HallDavid L. HamiltonRobert Harrison

William and Aline HaynesKeith Gollust and Barbara HemmerleDavid HendersonCatherine HerkovicDavid Alexander HickersonDouglas Hickey

Arthur and Eleanor HoerRobert and Irene HollwegDouglas Schloss

and Alison HoltzschueSeth HoytRobert Spring and James HuddleDonald HultgrenEdwin HustonBradley Hutchison

Alice HymanSamina IshtiaqLawrence IvesChris JacksonKatherine JacobsonScott JamesDaniel and Deborah JanesChristopher Janish

Jonathan Abrams andSandra Jean-Louis

Georgios KabakisRoberta KanterKimberly Kargman

cONTRiBUTORsCliord KellerBradley and Linda KentNona Kerr

Jason Kessler John MacArthur

and Renee Khatami Anthony Khuri Angelique Kidjo Jerey Kingsley Brian KinkadeMichael and Janice Lally

Alain LeCoquePaul LeeNancy Leeds

Yves LeperlierStephanie LevaughnGianranco and Rita LavoroneMark David LewisMichelle Lewis

Judith Lidsky Chun a LinPaul LindbladEmily LizcanoMichel and Odile LongchamptLisa Loveday Liliana Lovell

J. Harry LynchMitzi MacDonald-LawsStephen MaimanMarita MakinenCharles-Henri and

Marguerite ManginBennet Manning, Jr.Carrie MarsylaDavid MartocciaLiz MarxStephen and Patricia Masceri

Andy MaunderRuth and Nathan Mazurek

Jane McDonaldSandra McEntee

John McDermott and VictoriaMcManusStacey Mednick David Melnik Charles Merrill, Jr.Laurie MillerMary Frances Miller

Alison Miner

Marti and David MinkerGerd MittmannRichard MottRichard and Beverly Moody Rebecca Morey

Jean-Marc MorianiMargaret MoyersMegan MoynihanEnrica MurmuraDave NapeRaya Novak Patricia PacelliKara ParkerHasmukh and Bhanuben PatelMukeshkumar and Lataben Patel

Jay Patidar James and Gloria PaulTomas PetersonGuy Phillips

Darcy Pollack B.A. PowellCatherine PricesFrederic and Maria Ragucci

Annapurna Ramanarayanan, MD.Farzad and Neda RastegarDaniel RiessMatthew Robbins

Jordan RobertsTomas and Mary Alice Roberts

Andrew Hamilton and Anne Robinson

Daniel Rootenberg Jerey Roseman James and Alice RossStuart RossGreg RothDavid RouseDavid Rush

Sharon Russell James Sage William Samuels Joan SaundersFuad SawayaOle ScheterCharles Schlangen

Jill SchreinerRandy Seeley Edward and Virginia SermierMeredith and Anthony ShepherdSusan ShroyerRobert SiegelCoralis SierraLisa SilvaRonald Simons

Anna SinclairDavid SirotaLai Shan Siu

Jerey SmithQuade SmithGarrett and Jeannine SnipesMichael SnyderMiriam and Israel SoibelmanDaniel SokolnickiRon and Annette Sourine

Ashley SpicerSheila Spradlin

Jill Stansky Brian Steinwurtzel

Ronald Stevens Joyce StoneEdward StuartCaren SturgesErica and Patricia SugdenCarol SugimoriRobert and Sharon Swindler

Jerey and Karen anenbaumMatthew ate

Ali ayarMadeline TomasRobert TompsonPhornanan TungkasemvathanaLoren ibbittsCarole illmanMark Utay

Joseph Valerio William and Melinda

Vanden Heuvel

Deborah VanderHeydenHenry and Margaret Vosswinkel

Joe WagnerRubina WahidRobert WeaverDavid WeeksHenry and Laura Weil

Wendy WeilerStephan WesselsChristopher Flowers and

Mary WhiteRobyn WittlederEthan WohlBarry Wol P. Garrett Wycko Michael Yancey Diana YatesMyth York Robert and Jeanne Zabelle

Walter ZalenskiMike ZoiHossein Amirsaleh Foundation

Ashken Family CharitableFoundation, Inc.

Carlson Family FoundationSimon & Eve Colin

Foundation, Inc.Community Foundation

o New Jersey Cunningham-Wright

Family FundDeutsche Bank Americas

FoundationDJRJ und at Fidelity Charitable

Git FundFribourg Family FoundationGlaxoSmithKline Foundation

James C. Hormel RevocableLiving rust

Holland and Knight CharitableFoundation, Inc.Kenneth A. Lattman FoundationLeonard & Evelyn Lauder

FoundationNaval Station Religious

Oerings Funds (ROF)Te News Corporation

FoundationPzer Foundation

Matching Gits ProgramPoncelet Family FundKenneth G. Prior FoundationRebold Family FundRimerman Family FoundationRyan Family rust

Jennier L. Schi Charitable rust

Schwab Fund orCharitable Giving

Charles Schwab Foundation Jane Schwartz FoundationSusan Stein Shiva FoundationSeth Neiman & Lauren Speeth

FoundationStrong-Cuevas Foundation Inc.Sun Microsystems FoundationVanguard Charitable

Endowment Program

Weingart Family Fund Arlington High School

Activity Fund Athena Group ASAP Personnel Services, Inc.Back Oce Support Systems, Inc.Bakerseld Christian High SchoolBethel Baptist ChurchBoston Copley Place MarriottBristol-Myers SquibbCapri Institute o New Jersey Central Laourche High SchoolClyde A. Erwin High SchoolChemcentral HQ Concentra Preerred SystemCurves DimondCurves RockridgeDance Space Center, Inc.Daylily

Equus Real Estate Management Inc.Falcone & ruman Plumbingand Heating

Fith Avenue Elementary SchoolFlushing Hospital Medical CenterHenry Gunn High School Key ClubHOPE Sudbury Il BucoIntegrated Management, Inc.Interior Building ServicesIG Sotware Solutions, Inc.

Jim Boyd Construction, Inc. Joy Wok ExpressKips Bay Boys and Girls ClubKrinos Foods, Inc.Mahalaxmi Inn CorporationNemet MotorsNick & oni’s RestaurantSkyview enants AssociationNorthrop Grumman CorporationNorth Shore Catamaran ChartersOakton Community CollegeO’Brien Law FirmPathways or Youth, Inc.Perelson Weiner, LLPRotary Club o Pomton LakesPMK GroupPruzan & Co., LLCRiverdale-Yonkers Society or EthicalCulture

SoundoysTings RememberedTe College o New Jersey Student

Government Associationowery Homes, Inc.UNAUSA Riverdale ChapterUnited Directories

West Hillsborough SchoolTe Womens Club o New Seabury

Yosemite High SchoolZodiac Pioneer Aerospace

Corporation





2005 ANNUAL REPORT2

iNdividUALs

Angela Alston Andrew Chenimothy Crespi

Jonathan DienstKiran KhalidFiorella LavadoMatt MasonMitzi MacDonaldCynthia MejiasBlazej MilukaMargarita PecesNancy Penner

James Pomerantzraer PriceMat NortonReed RobbinsMary O’Neil Berry Karen Shunick

David SirotaErica Zeland

cORPORATiONs / iNsTiTUTiONs

Avenue A / RazorshInterrupción

J&D Labs, Inc.Lillian Lincoln FoundationTe Newspark GroupNYU Capstone ProgramPeace CerealPuppet PSA PeopleSmashing Ideas, Inc.StarChes.comTelen Reid & Priest, LLPVranken

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

2005 WORLd fOOd dAy gALA sUPPORTERs

Beneft Committee

Henry H. ArnholdDaniel BarthMarcel and Marlise BiedermannOlivier CassegrainRobert B. ChavezCharles-Henri Cousin

Ariane DaguinOlivier GiugniDavid and Liz Hinden

Alison Holtzschue SchlossIda KowitValerie KriegerOlivier LebretPeter and janet Ley Deanna LittellNicholas and Charlotte MacLean

Juan Pablo Molyneux Jessica Packer Joel and Yuta PowellMarla SaboRobert and Julie SchaerBarbara Cirkva Schumacher and John SchumacherPaul and Ursula Striker

Jessica Weber Wendy C. Weiler and Donald E. Chappell

Epicurean Committee

Rick Smilow, Te Institute o Culinary EducationChe Cornelius Gallagher, OceanaChe Andrew Gold, Te Institute o Culinary EducationChe Deborah Snyder, Lever House

Ariane Daguin, D’ArtagnanChe Karl Schmid, Te Metropolitan Club

sPEciAL ThANKs TO

BernardaudChanel, Inc.Chateau Late RothschildChateau Mouton RothschildChristain Dior, Inc.Susan EngGivenchy Hermes de Paris, Inc.Hotel Plaza Athenee

John Hardy Jessica Weber Design, Inc.La Maison du ChocolatLalique North AmericaLanson ChampagneL’Olivier DowntownLuxottica Group

Alexandra LeclercLongchamp

Te Macallan Scotch Whisky Nicholas F. MacLean, Christie’s Auction HouseMonsieur outon Selections, Ltd.Ruth C. Schwartz & Co. Public Relations

and Events SolutionsSal Anthony Sal Anthony Pilates StudioTe Scottish GourmetSmashing IdeasSwiss International AirlinesVirginie SommetStarches.comTe Tomas Group Printing

iN-KiNd cONTRiBUTiONs Of gOOds OR sERvicEs Acf-UsA’s sTATEmENT Of AcTiviTiEs ANd chANgEs iNNET AssETs fOR ThE yEAR ENdEd dEcEmBER 31, 2005

TEmPORARiLyUNREsTRicTEd REsTRicTEd TOTAL

REvENUE ANd sUPPORTContributi ons $1,651,495 $ 1,921,308 $ 3,572,803Grants (Note 5):

U.S. Government 133,372 6,750,748 6,884,120Non-U.S. Government 33,227 11,416,304 11,449,531

Interest 24,621 - 24,621Other 474 - 474Net assets released rom donor restrictio ns (Note 6) 17,121,970 (17,121,970) -

otal revenue and support 18,965,159 2,966,390 21,931,549

ExPENsEsProgram Services:

Democratic Republic o Congo Programs 5,192,713 - 5,192,713South Sudan Programs 2,033,458 - 2,033,458

Uganda Programs 3,124,967 - 3,124,967Pakistan Programs 1,753,885 - 1,753,885ajikistan Programs 1,058,250 - 1,058,250Kenya Programs 760,867 - 760,867Chad Programs 1,403,845 - 1,403,845Sri Lanka Programs 821,656 - 821,656Guinea Programs 311,087 - 311,087Mali Programs 345,073 - 345,073Niger Programs 27,000 - 27,000

otal program services 16,832,801 - 16,832,801

Supporting services:Management and General 1,399,513 - 1,399,513Fundraisin g 358,133 - 358,133

otal supportin g service s 1,757,646 - 1,757,646

otal expenses 18,590,447 - 18,590,447

Changes in net assets beore other items 374,712 2,966,390 3,341,102Provision or unantici pated losses (200,000) - (200,000)Exchange gain (loss) (92,605) (462,323) (554,928)De-obligate d awards and unds returned to donors (20,288) (40,342) (60,630)

Changes in net assets 61,819 2,463,725 2,525,544Net assets at beginnin g o year 1,649,078 2,540,851 4,189,929

NET AssETs AT ENd Of yEAR $ 1,710,897 $ 5,004,576 $ 6,715,473

ALL OTHERS 9%

CHAD 8%

KENYA 5%

TAJIKISTAN 6%

PAKISTAN 10%

fUNds WE cOmmiT TO ALL OUR PROgRAms

DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLIC

OF CONGO 31%

SOUTH SUDAN 12%

UGANDA 19%

Action Against Hunger’s internationalrelie and development programsprovide immediate assistance andlong-term relie to malnourishedchildren and their amilies. As a

world leader in the treatment o malnutrition, ACF’s programs areinormed by over a quarter century o cutting-edge activities in the ghtagainst global hunger, deliveringeective assistance in a wide rangeo countries and cultural contexts, asexemplied by these photos.

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hOW WE UsE OUR fUNds

FUNDRAISING 2%

MANAGEMENT

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SERVICES

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AcTiON AgAiNsT hUNgER, fRANcE

4 rue Niepce75014 Paris, Franceel: +33 1 43 35 88 88

Fax: +33 1 43 35 88 [email protected] www.actioncontrelaaim.orgPresident: Jean-Christophe RunDirector: Benoit Miribel

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247 West 37th StreetSuite 1201New York, NY 10018 USA el: +1 212 967 7800Fax: +1 212 967 [email protected]

www.actionagainsthunger.orgPresident: Burton K. HaimesDirector: Cathy Skoula

AcTiON AgAiNsT hUNgER, sPAiN

C/Caracas, 6, 1°

28010 Madrid, Spain

el: +34 91 391 53 00

Fax: +34 91 391 53 01

[email protected]

www.accioncontraelhambre.org

President: Jose Luis Leal Maldonado

Director: Olivier Longue

AcTiON AgAiNsT hUNgER, UNiTEd KiNgdOm

First Floor, rear premises,

161-163 Greenwich High Road,

London, SE10 8JA

United Kingdom

el: + 44 208 293 6190

Fax: + 44 208 858 8372

[email protected]

www.aahuk.orgPresident: Sir Ronald Grierson

Director: Jean-Michel Grand

AcTiON AgAiNsT hUNgER, cANAdA

7464 rue St Denis

H2R 2E4

Montréal, Quebec, Canada

el: +1.514.279.4876

[email protected]

www.actioncontrelaaim.ca

President: Diane Bussandri

Director: Anne-Sophie Fournier

ThE Acf iNTERNATiONAL NETWORK

(1) Our programs reach vulnerable populations in ar-fung areas like this man’s village in southernSudan. (2) Poverty, deprivation, and chronic malnutrition are all too common, but our programsrestore dignity and health, as this photo rom Mongolia suggests. (3) Much o our work ocuses onchildren under the age o ve because o their susceptibility to health complications rom hungerand malnutrition, as these images rom Congo (3) and Malawi (4) depict. (5) Tis photo is o the ready-to-eat nutritional product, “plumpy’nut,” that we oten use during the initial phase o anutritional crisis. (6) We rely on the support o all kinds o people, including these young students

who participate in our annual “Run Against Hunger,” raising awareness and unds or ACF’s globaleorts. (7) Our therapeutic eeding centers (FCs) take on many orms, rom tents, to woodenstructures, to actual hospital rooms—like this photo o a FC in Malawi—but they all operate asintensive care units, despite their homey appearance.

OUR iNTERNATiONAL chARTER:A cOmmiTmENT TO PRiNciPLEd

hUmANiTARiAN AcTiON

All members o the Action Against Hunger InternationalNetwork adhere to the ollowing humanitarian principles.

Independence Action Against Hunger acts according to its own principlesin order to maintain its moral and nancial independence.

Action Against Hunger’s actions are not dened in termso domestic or oreign policies, nor does the organizationact in the interest o any government.

Neutrality Action Against Hunger maintains a strict political a ndreligious neutrality. Nevertheless, Action Against Hungercan denounce human rights violations it witnesses as wellas obstacles put in the way o its humanitarian activities.

Non-Discrimination A victim is a victim. Action Against Hunger rejects alldiscrimination based on ethnicity, nationality, opinion,race, religion, sex, or social class.

Free and Direct Access to Victims Action Against Hunger demands ree access to victims anddirect control o its programs. Action Against Hunger usesall means available to achieve this goal, and will denounceand act against obstacles that prevent the organizationrom doing so. Action Against Hunger also veries theallocation o its resources in order to ensure that they reach those individuals or whom they are destined. Underno circumstances can partners working together with oralongside Action Against Hunger become the ultimatebeneciaries o Action Against Hunger’s aid programs.

Professionalism

o maximize its eciency and use o resources, Action Against Hunger bases the assessment, conception,management, and realization o its programs on thehighest proessional standards and its years o experience.

Transparency Action Against Hunger is committed to respecting a policy o transparency and disclosure or its beneciaries, donors,and partners by making available all inormation on theallocation and management o its unds, and by providingindependent verication o its good management.

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51,550

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200people in The democraTic republic of congo die everyday, largely from disease and food shorTages linkedTo six years of war and The subsequenT collapse ofThe congo’s healTh sysTem and economy

counTriescurrenTly hosT

acTion againsThunger relief

and developmenTprograms

million people in Theworld suffer frommalaria, which killsone million peopleeach year, mosT ofwhom are childrenunder The age of five.simple, cosT-effecTivesoluTions, however,exisT for prevenTingThe needless Toll ThaTmalaria exacTs on poorcommuniTies

people were TreaTed in acf’s TherapeuTic and supplemenTal feeding cenTers in 2005, mosT of whomwere on The brink of deaTh when They arrived. acf’s humaniTarian inTervenTions resTore life,digniTy, and self-sufficiency, uniquely bridging urgenT relief wiTh longer-Term developmenT

billion people lack basic saniTaTionToday—an asTounding forTy-TwopercenT of The world’s populaTion.unsafe drinking waTer, inadequaTesaniTaTion, and poor hygiene lead To a hosT of infecTious diseases and chronicmalnuTriTion ThaT ulTimaTely kill overTwo million children a year

millioncongolese havedied as a resulTof conflicT since1998, mosTlyfrom hunger and

disease

acf head-quarTers

make up ourinTernaTionalneTwork 396 1.1BILLION

million people suffer from hunger around Theworld, in boTh iTs chronic and acuTe forms.hunger and malnuTriTion kill over five millionchildren every year, induce Tremendous suffering,

and cosT poor counTries billions of dollars in

naTional income and losT producTiviTy

852

43 5 26years of acfexperTise in

humaniTarian acTion

people lack access To safewaTer aroundThe world,leaving ThemvulnerableTo dailyindigniTies andfrighTeningraTes ofdeaTh anddebiliTaTion

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