Having access to regular nutritious meals helps people focus on living instead of just surviving. It promotes health, supports healthy growth and development, and gives families more freedom and the stability they need to thrive.
Tragically, malnutrition is a worsening global health issue due to poverty, instability and natural disasters, with around 2.3 billion individuals facing moderate or severe food insecurity and more than 860 million going without food for a whole day or more at times. A lack of healthy food affects entire families, and women and children often feel its impact first. The inability to afford a healthy diet can harm their long-term health and development.
When the Church helps meet these needs, men, women and children grow stronger not just physically but also spiritually as they encounter Christ as their healer and provider through compassionate Catholic benefactors.
Last year, thanks to the generosity of donors like you, we were able to bless 28,442,340 people with access to protein-packed Vitafood meals. These efforts included, for example, partnering with the Diocese of Karonga to provide meals to the most vulnerable in Malawi, empowering our friends in Haiti to meet the nutritional needs of hundreds of families, and supporting 24 institutions that serve women, families and children with both nutritious food and spiritual formation in Peru.
