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Help families facing severe hunger

Today alone, millions of struggling families do not know where their next meal will come from – or if any food will come at all. Right now, the world is experiencing a distressing surge in hunger. 

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Janet Zirugo is seated with her granddaughter Taonga Credit: David Brazier/Christian Aid
Janet Zirugo is seated with her granddaughter Taonga

Seeing my children and grandchildren without enough food to eat was heartbreaking, I thought they were going to die.

- Janet, Nyarai Zirugo's mother.

According to the U.N., hunger is currently the leading cause of death in the world.

And while the world’s farmers should be able to grow enough food to feed everyone on the planet, the overlapping crises of conflict, climate change and economic inequality have created a cycle that has undermined food security worldwide.

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Janet Zirugo (centre) poses with her granddaughter Taonga, 5 (left) and Mufaro 4 (right) at their homestead in Njani village, Ward 8 of Mutoko District, Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe. Credit: David Brazier / Christian Aid
Janet Zirugo (centre) poses with her granddaughter Taonga, 5 (left) and Mufaro 4 (right) at their homestead in Njani village, Ward 8 of Mutoko District, Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe.

Even here at home, we’ve experienced some of these felt effects of conflict as war in Ukraine has triggered a global increase in food and fuel prices.

Imagine, the pains of inflation we feel at home magnified in places like Malawi where inflation has reached 26.6% – more than double the 10.5% increase we’ve experienced in our own cost-of-living crisis. Though these challenges stacked upon challenges can seem insurmountable, we truly believe that ending hunger in our lifetime is not only attainable, but what we are called to do – together.

Responding to the hunger crisis is exactly the kind of faith in action that John wrote about in 1 John when he said:

Let us not love in word or talk, but in deed and in truth.

- John 3:18.
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