Solidarity calendar Published on 2024 / 10 / 16

World Food Day 2024

World Food Day, celebrated every year on October 16, is a key moment for raising public awareness of the challenges of hunger and malnutrition around the world. La Chaîne de l'Espoir works to ensure that every child has access to sufficient, healthy food.

Visit World Food Day, date emblematic date since 1979

Every year, World Food Day highlights the global problems of malnutrition and raises awareness of food security issues.ood security. Its date coincides with the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), organization organization behind the event.

According to the FAO, “733 million people are facing hunger due to conflict, repeated climatic shocks and economic downturns“.

A young girl at the Children's Pavilion in Kabul

What is the theme of World Food Day 202?4 ?

The theme of Food Day 2024 is: the right to food for a better life and future.

For a significant proportion of the world’s population,access to a diversified and affordable diet remains limited, forcing the most vulnerable to consume cheaper, often inferior or harmful foods. Conflicts and and economic crises disrupt food systems and make access to food even more difficult. Leople made vulnerable bya poverty are forced to cheap food to the detriment of nutritional quality. This situation exacerbates malnutrition problems, leading to chronic disease and nutritional deficiencies.

Taking action for vulnerable in situations ofmalnutrition

Within the framework of its actions, La Chaîne de l’Espoir is committed tois in favoraccess to healthy and adequate and sufficient for the most vulnerable children. In Afghanistan, we remain mobilized to help the local population cope with the ever-increasing famine. In 2022, a unit malnutrition was opened within the Institut Médical Français pour la Mère et l’Enfant (IMFE), built and co-managed by our association. In 2023, this unit provided care for 2 018 beneficiaries suffering from severe malnutrition.