May 28 is World Hunger Day, a global initiative to raise awareness about global hunger and inspire action to address food insecurity and malnutrition. World Hunger Day has been celebrating sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty since 2011, and this year targets the importance of “sowing resilience.” See: https://www.worldhungerday.org/
Hunger kills more than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined, with 9 million deaths annually linked to malnutrition. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are the hardest hit, with countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Yemen facing severe crises.
Initiated in 2011 by The Hunger Project, a nonprofit focused on ending hunger through community empowerment, World Hunger Day has grown into a global movement. In 2024, it reached an estimated 48 million people with its message. The theme of “Sowing Resilience” for 2025 includes messaging about how every local food bank, community market, and volunteer effort is a sign of progress in a long and challenging journey.
In 2025, The Hunger Project hosted a dialogue featuring Rowlands Kaotcha (President and CEO of The Hunger Project) and Amath Pathe Sene (Managing Director Africa for The Africa Food Systems Forum) to discuss building resilience against hunger.
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Multiple international aid agencies are leveraging World Hunger Day to highlight the urgency of the global hunger crisis through coordinated awareness campaigns. Organizations are utilizing social media platforms, educational workshops, and community engagement activities to reach diverse audiences and promote understanding of hunger’s root causes. Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is commemorating World Hunger Day by highlighting their Project Based Food Assistance (PBFA) initiatives, which represent a comprehensive approach to addressing hunger through both immediate relief and long-term development. The organization’s work in Nakwanya, Uganda, illustrates how aid agencies are moving beyond simple food distribution to support community self-reliance through collaborative initiatives that include maintaining beehives and growing crops like maize and beans that thrive in local climates.
Save the Children is using World Hunger Day to highlight the critical situation facing children globally, emphasizing that 153 million children around the world are facing food insecurity. The organization’s emphasis on the “triple threat of conflict, climate change and economic cost” reflects how aid agencies are framing hunger as a multifaceted crisis requiring comprehensive solutions. Mary’s Meals is commemorating World Hunger Day by highlighting their school feeding programs that reach over 2.6 million children daily with food and access to education. The organization’s approach demonstrates how aid agencies are using the day to showcase innovative solutions that address multiple challenges simultaneously. Their model recognizes that hunger affects educational outcomes and that school feeding programs can serve as entry points for broader community development initiatives.
The use of hashtags like #WorldHungerDay, #EndHunger, #ZeroHunger, and #SowingResilience demonstrates how agencies are creating unified messaging that amplifies individual organizational efforts.
In Geneva the U.N. World Health Assembly’s of WHO approving two nutrition-related resolutions. One expanded provisions of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, which counteracts dangerous messaging to new parents about breastmilk powder which increases infant deaths, undermining breast feeding.
The second was the WHO Extension of the Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition: This resolution extended the implementation plan to the year 2030, to address malnutrition in mothers and young children. It encourages momentum to address persistent malnutrition, such as the 149 million children under five who were stunted and 45 million who were wasted globally as of 2022, along with addressing disorders such as anemia, overweight, and obesity in women.
