2022 Global Hunger Index indicates that Nigeria has 12.7% of its population undernourished and ranks 103 out of 121 countries. Malnourishment can compromise immune systems, delay cognitive development, stunt growth, cause pregnancy complications, and so much more.
Every day countless vulnerable families, women and children in many communities in Nigeria go to bed on empty stomachs, struggling to survive without access to basic nutrition. Poverty, displacement, and violence have worsened food insecurity, leaving many with little or nothing to eat.
Afri-mission Feed the hungry project aims to provide food and supplements to the hungry in our own small capacity. We reach out to the hungry people in remote communities in Nigeria with food and food supplements to cushion the effect of hunger and malnutrition; we visit each community four times in a year with food stuffs for distribution. We also train the villagers on resilience livelihood strategies thus empowering agricultural skill to help them with good yields. Over 1000 households have benefitted from the intervention in the FCT, Kebbi, Niger and Enugu states.
We move into remote communities to deliver food stuffs to our target persons. Many of our target persons do not eat rice until we give them because they cannot afford it. In a community in Niger state, after distributing rice to our target persons; women gathered and appeal to us to come more frequently because without our intervention that it will be difficult for them to eat rice.
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink….” (Mathew 25:35) We are enjoined by Christ to feed the hungry, it is obvious that hunger does not consider religion, tribe, race or ethnic inclination of its victim. In AFri-mission we consider it criminal negligence to by-pass any hungry man or woman during food supplies because he/she is not from our race, religion, ethnic nationality or tribe. We feed every hungry person that we come across.
Our Impacts in The Words of Our beneficiaries
“I am the secretary of my community women group, Afri-mission has helped our women wonderfully. They have supplied us food severally, distributed wrappers and many widows in our community are beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer of Afri-mission. I am speaking on behalf of the women, we are grateful and wondered how we would have survived if not for Afri-mission”. – Madam C.C
“I am a widow with three children, my children and I are beneficiaries of Afri-mission Feed the Hungry Program. Afri-mission did not only fed us, they clothed us, paid our hospital bills, paid our school fees and gave me capital to start a business. I shall ever remain grateful!”
“I am surprised at what Afri-mission is doing, since I came across the president; I have benefitted so many things from them. He asked me to take him to where we live inside the bush and himself and his team members visited with bags of foods and beverages to distribute to all the families in our settlement. What baffles all of us is that we are all Muslims but the people that came to help us are Christians. Thank you Afri-mission”- Hajia Hasiya Adamu