Welthungerhilfe

Welthungerhilfe provides help from one set of hands: from immediate emergency aid in the wake of a disaster to long-term projects carried out in cooperation with local partners. For Welthungerhilfe, overcoming hunger goes hand in hand with overcoming poverty. We support people living in deprivation and poverty, irrespective of the colour of their skin, their religious beliefs or their world view. But helping does not mean providing handouts. Effective aid means helping people find new ways to determine their own lives and future free of hunger and deprivation – we help them help themselves. 

Welthungerhilfe

• is a private, non-profit-making, politically independent and non-denominational relief organisation which works under a voluntary Board of Directors and the patronage of the German President
• has supported some 5,500 projects in over 70 countries with 1.9 billion Euro since its foundation in 1962
• funds its work with private donations and public grants, e.g. from the EU or the Federal Government
• is a member of Alliance2015, a network of European relief organisations
• is subject to regular controls by the independent German Central Institute of Social Issues (DZI).