How To End Hunger

People suffer from chronic, persistent hunger not because there is a shortage of food. The world produces more than enough food for everyone, and most countries produce enough food for their people. Chronic hunger and abject poverty are symptoms of underlying social conditions that systematically deny hungry people the opportunity they need to end their own hunger. The most important of these are the severe subjugation of women and poor people’s lack of voice in the decisions that affect their lives.

Conventional ways of thinking about hunger treat hungry people as the problem. The cliché – “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day – teach a man to fish and you feed him for life” - is not only wrong, it is damaging. Hungry people have generations of wisdom about “fishing” – the problem is the barbed wire around the lake.

FeelGood believes that conventional aid hasn't worked and won't work. That is why we have identified and are funding and expanding the work of organizations that operate under a completely different paradigm than that of conventional aid. FeelGood only funds development strategies that have ALL of the following three components: