FH Canada 2020 Annual Report

Communities of Resilience 2020 Annual Report

Thank you for your impact in 2020!

Thank you for your courageous support! You showed up in bigger ways than ever before, in a time where partner communities needed you most.

The COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns changed life for partner communities.

Families needed help adapting to school closures. Parents lost jobs and food became scarce. Leaders had to cope with new restrictions. Health and hygiene education took top priority.

It was a challenging year, but communities continued to show their resilience. Thanks to a firm foundation you helped lay, families knew they had to farm food efficiently, care for their livestock, and grow their resources together in Savings and Loans groups.

What a privilege to see you ending poverty! Your gifts are working to help parents, leaders, and children carry on their journey from stuck to thriving. Amidst the challenges of COVID-19, your support continues to train leaders, help kids learn, and keep food on the table for families in partner communities.

Keep scrolling to see what these communities have accomplished in 2020!

Gratefully, Shawn Plummer President & CEO

Food for the Hungry (FH) is a Christian non-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty—one community at a time.

Who you walk with With partners like you, FH walks alongside the most vulnerable families, leaders, and churches throughout the world as they journey toward sustainability. Over a 10 year partnership, donors like you support communities working to transform their physical, relational, and spiritual poverty into opportunities for flourishing.

In 2020, you walked with:

85

partner communities across Guatemala, Haiti, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Bangladesh, & Cambodia

178,887 8,767

people making up 38,218 households

Our Purpose To end poverty, one community at a time

Our Promise To graduate communities from poverty in 10 years

sponsor children and their families supported by 7,135 Canadian sponsors

Why our approach works Each community faces different challenges and has unique advantages. By walking alongside families, together we find creative solutions to ending poverty. We call our model Child Focused Community Transformation (CFCT). When children thrive, the whole community thrives.

FH’s work focuses on a full spread, pursuing graduation with communities in four sectors:

Health

Education

Livelihoods

Leadership

Emphasis is also given to disaster risk reduction, gender equality, environmental care, and a biblical worldview. It’s a lot, but poverty is not simple; an integrated approach leads to true resilience.

85 Communities On Their Way to Graduation Uganda: Bukiende (4 communities) 2019

Cambodia: Boeng Mealea (6 communities) 2029

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Cambodia: Tropeang Prasat (17 communities) 2016

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2024

2012

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2011

2022

Haiti: Cachiman (1 community) 2025

2007

2021

Guatemala: Nebaj (3 communities)

Cambodia: Ta Siem (6 communities) 2014

2014

Rwanda: Busekera (1 community)

Burundi: Kabarore (20 communities) 2015

2024

Bangladesh: Char Borobila (1 communities)

Cambodia: Kantuot (6 communities) 2015

2014 Haiti: Mategouasse (1 community)

Guatemala: Acul (1 community) 2013

2024

Ethiopia: Sasiga Mid Highlands (9 communities)

Guatemala: Cotzal (9 communities) 2019

2014

2024

2009

2021

Helping communities struggling with school closures, job loss, and health issues required a thoughtful yet quick approach.

Navigating the pandemic The global COVID-19 pandemic threatened health, jobs, schools, and more. Helping communities already struggling with so much required a thoughtful yet quick approach.

FH’s regular activities in communities pivoted to respond to the crisis through COVID-19 awareness mass messaging and prevention training, food and hygiene packs, at-home child education support, providing the tools for making a living (like sewing machines, livestocks, and more), and leadership training. As a result, many communities’ graduation dates have been extended by one year to allow for time to recover.

Responding to COVID-19 You supported a unified effort with FH Global to reach 2,570,000+ people with interventions to limit the spread of COVID-19 or address emerging needs including psychosocial support, help for students learning at home, and ways to keep food on the table.

During those first few months of pandemic lockdowns, FH distributed supplies to schools, health facilities, leaders, and families. Immediate needs were met with things like masks, gloves, soap and disinfectants, water barrels, disposal equipment, handwashing stations, educational leaflets and posters, garden seeds, chickens, and more!

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community members and neighbours directly communicated with about COVID-19 awareness and prevention community members surveyed on the pandemic’s impact on their communities of the most vulnerable households given food or hygiene packs

FH globally established four guiding priorities so families would have what they need now, and support their ongoing needs even as a pandemic persists.

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Good health is the first step to a thriving daily life. Being free from illness gives people time and energy to move ahead.

Health Staff and Cascade group members coached leaders, volunteers, and families on COVID-19 prevention through text messages, awareness posters, and physically distanced conversations.

Public and family handwashing stations were set up and home gardens flourished, providing food to many families when the pandemic caused food shortages.

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community members educated on health topics by 1,893 group leaders and staff people trained on nutrition and meal prep clean water points (water wells, tanks, pipelines) established handwashing stations provided in schools, health facilities, homes, and markets clean latrines established girls received sanitary materials

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I became severely anemic. I was urgently hospitalized, my health condition was really poor. The spinach garden really helped me.

I ate it almost every day, now I feel great!

— Rosemene, Haiti

READ ROSEMENE’S STORY

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Knowledge sets a foundation for children and adults alike. Child Sponsorship helps children stay in school while supporting their parents and teachers.

Education Providing quality education and safe schools has been a long term priority. But when schools closed in 2020, many students stopped learning. FH created learning guides to help parents tutor their children at home. FH staff stayed in touch with families via text messaging, and when it was allowed, visited homes to encourage them.

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people trained on the importance of education and how to teach at home students received learning materials local schools partnered with FH classrooms built active children’s clubs, including AWANA

I thank God that at least three of my children are being sponsored. They receive school uniforms which lift their self-esteem and I will be able to save some money to buy a goat and keep it for the future of my family, — Grace, Uganda

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READ GRACE’S STORY

Families thrive when they move beyond day-to-day survival, have access to income generating opportunities, and can save their money with their community.

Livelihoods Savings and Loans groups supported families as they faced wage losses caused by COVID-19 lockdowns. FH provided more vegetable and grain seeds to farming families, introduced fruit tree saplings to provide long-term income, and distributed additional livestock for food, income, and long-term stability.

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members make up 390 Savings and Loans groups.

Together they saved and loaned $1.1 million CAD and approved over 4,190 loans to each other

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people trained in improved agriculture techniques farming families received training in livestock rearing and management farming animals distributed kitchen gardens established or supported with supplies and training

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I [started with] a goat and bought a cow by rearing, breeding, and selling these goats. Now I have two cows and three goats as well as some chickens! My family is in good health and don’t need to worry about food or affording education.

Both of my children are in school.

— Rakeya, Bangladesh

READ RAKEYA’S STORY

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Dedicated community leaders work together to plan their future and find creative solutions to communal challenges.

Leadership FH staff work and live alongside community members, walking closely with leaders. In the midst of COVID-19, staff continued nurturing these core relationships through calls, texts, and inperson when it was safe to return to the communities.

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active leaders continuing to receive support leaders trained (on everything from COVID-19 support to Disaster Risk Reduction) local churches partnered with FH

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I feel very happy to contribute to benefit the families of my community, to ensure its development, and to be a blessing for the members of the church. I am very happy to see behaviour changes in my family and my neighbours.

— Miguel, Guatemala

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READ MIGUEL’S STORY

The basic needs for survival must be tackled before families can begin to thrive.

Relief & Humanitarian Assistance

2.5 20,000 11 1658

million individuals received deworming medication via mobile clinics, health centres, and home visits vulnerable households received soup mix to supplement their diets and fight malnutrition containers of life-saving resources shipped to Burundi, Guatemala, North Korea, and South Africa households received emergency food aid due to natural disasters and the pandemic

While coping with the effects of the pandemic, your support continued to help with ongoing refugee crises.

Food for South Sudanese Refugees Sponsors have been rounding up their monthly support, contributing to a Children in Crisis Emergency Fund. This was tapped into to help refugees feed their families: 2,725 South Sudanese families in the Lamwo Refugee Camp in Northern Uganda 80 farmer groups and 25 Savings and Loans groups given training and seeds 10 women groups established Kitchen Gardens Medical Support for Rohingya Refugees FH, together with our partner Medical Teams International and FH Bangladesh, have been providing life-saving primary and clinical health care in the Cox’s Bazar refugee settlement in Bangladesh.

4 medical centres supporting 62,181 refugees Retrofit medical clinics as COVID-19 isolation and treatment centres

Financials For the Fiscal Year October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020

Revenue 33.6% Child Sponsorship 41.8% GIK & Commodities 23.2% Program Donations 1.4% Other Income Total FY 2020 Revenue: $11,418,937

Expenses 81.3% Building Sustainable Communities 14.0% Invested to Generate Income 4.7% Administration & Operating Costs Total FY 2020 Expenses: $11,357,625

We couldn’t do it without you! In 2021, there are health messages to share, teachers to train, businesses to spark, and leaders to invest in.

Thank you for partnering with families across the world to end poverty, one community at a time.

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Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada National Office 1-31741 Peardonville Road, Abbotsford, V2T 1L2 1.800.667.0605 info@fhcanada.org fhcanada.org