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More than 12 million children in the U.S. suffer from hunger, more than 3 million chronically.

As many as 1 in 5 American children go to bed hungry.

Around the world, 30,000 children die each day from hunger and other preventable illnesses.

Hunger and malnutrition are the underlying causes of more than one-half of all child deaths.

Hungry children are more likely to get sick, and hunger makes it harder for children to concentrate and perform well in school.

Feed The Children is a Christian, international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty, or natural disaster.

What We Do

During our 28-year history, Feed The Children has grown into one of the world's largest private organizations dedicated to helping hungry and hurting people. Last year, Feed The Children shipped 129 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and in 43 foreign countries, supplementing more than 730,000 meals a day worldwide. Since our founding in 1979, Feed The Children has reached out to help children and families in 118 countries around the globe.

U.S. Programs

The heart of Feed The Children's U.S. program is distributing food to families in need. To do this, we work closely with caring corporate partners that donate surplus food and other supplies, as well as with individual donors who help defray the cost of transporting the product donations.

Feed The Children's wholly-owned subsidiary, FTC Transportation, Inc., picks up in-kind contributions from corporate warehouses and brings them to one of six Feed The Children regional distribution centers. Some of the donations are then distributed in bulk and others are processed into individual relief boxes.

International Outreach

Feed The Children's international programs focus on providing food, medical assistance, emergency relief, and creating sustainable development.

Since 1979, we have provided food, clothing, medical assistance, and educational opportunities to those in need in more than 118 nations around the world. Through schools, orphanages and church-related programs, Feed The Children touches the lives of millions of children. We also provide assistance to orphanages, schools, and other charitable groups in these regions.

A key goal is to help families in need move past needing help and into becoming self-sufficient members of their community. Through long-term, self-help development programs funded by grants and individual donors, thousands of families in countries around the world have increased their ability to be self-sufficient by learning and applying new, marketable skills. Find out how you can be a part of the solution to the problem of child hunger around the world.

Once winter strikes, parents getting by on threadbare budgets must make a painful decision – heat their home or feed their children.

For more and more families, there's just not enough money for both.

Winter is the most punishing season for the working poor and their children.

Feed The Children doesn't provide heat... but we can make sure poor children have food on the table to eat!

It takes just $7 to send 50 pounds of shelf stable nutritious food to a family who will need our help this winter. That's enough to feed a family of 4 for 2 entire weeks!

When you help provide food for the children... more families will be able to heat their homes when the cold winds blow and the thermometer heads toward zero.

Helping hungry children and their families by focusing on good stewardship and transparency

Accountability

At Feed The Children, our pledge to you is to be effective in our outreach to those in need by being good stewards of the funds entrusted to us. We are audited yearly, and the information below is summarized from the consolidated financial statement.

Distribution Percentages

During FY 2006, Feed The Children committed $582,212,599 to program services.

Here is the percentage breakdown of expenditures:

At Feed The Children, our pledge is to maintain effective outreach by being good stewards of these funds entrusted to us. Feed The Children is audited by the accounting firm, Capin Crouse, LLP. Financial data presented here is summarized from the consolidated financial statements of Feed The Children, Inc. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006. Contributions to Feed The Children are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Full Audited Financials

Feed The Children's Annual Report, Audited Financials and IRS Form 990 are available for viewing or downloading in Adobe PDF versions:

Charity Evaluators

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