Action Against Hunger was founded in 1979 by French intellectuals in response to the emergency in Afghanistan. It provides humanitarian aid in nearly 50 countries, focusing on nutrition, food security, water, sanitation, and hygiene. Action Against Hunger's first chairman was Alfred Kastler, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Over the past 30 years, Action Against Hunger has helped over 14.9 million people in 47 countries, working to end child hunger and provide families with access to water and nutrition.

1. Affects of
Hunger
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER

2. Founder
● Action against Hunger was founded in 1979 by a group of French intellectuals in response to the
emergency in Afghanistan. These included Françoise Giroud, Bernard Henri Lévy, Marek
Halter, Alfred Kastler (a Nobel Laureate in physics), Guy Sorman, Jacques Attali, and several
other doctors, journalists and writers.

3. INTRODUCTION OF THE SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURS
● Action Against Hunger’s first chairman was Alfred Kastler. He was born in
Guebwiller (Alsace, German Empire) and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi
in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921. After his
studies, in 1926 he began teaching physics at the Lycée of Mulhouse, and then
taught at the University of Bordeaux, where he was a university professor
until 1941. Georges Bruhat asked him to come back to the École Normale
Supérieure, where he finally obtained a chair in 1952.

4. HISTORY OF THE VENTURE
HISTORY
● Action Against Hunger's teams work in nearly 50 countries worldwide
to carry out innovative, lifesaving programmes in nutrition, food
security, water, sanitation and hygiene.
● Action Against Hunger has provided people in need of assistance with
nutrition and health, water, sanitation and hygiene, food security and
livelihood.
● .Action Against Hunger responds to humanitarian emergencies all over
the world, delivering immediate life-saving services to populations in
distress.

5. IMPACT OF THE VENTURE
IMPACT
●Action Against Hunger is a humanitarian organisation committed to
ending child hunger. Every day they work to save the lives of
malnourished children while providing families with sustainable access
to safe water and good nutrition.
●With over 30 years of expertise in emergency situations of conflict,
natural disaster and chronic food insecurity, they’ve helped over 14.9
million people in 47 countries in 2015.

6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
● Overall, my group feels that what Action Against Hunger does is very
important and that we can learn from them as they are doing the right
thing. Action Against Hunger helps those that are in need of basic
services like clean water, they give hope to those in need.
Citation:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Against_Hunger
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/
https://www.actionagainsthunger.org.uk/
Group Members: Daryl, Adam, Kyran, Justin from Boys’ Brigade 5th
Company