Got-a-Grant ~ Hunger

About Feed Direct

In addition to our hands-on feeding programs, such as A Well-Fed DC, our Feed Direct - Hunger Relief Program partners with organizations through our Sustainable Keys Global Grants.

Feed Direct distributes food directly to people in need for an immediate impact. 

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Feed Direct also helps establish long-term food sources by supporting community gardens, “stock-free” farming, and other project models that are sustainable and adaptable... able to expand to other communities.

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The $10 Club encourages 'microphilanthropy' where individuals donate $10 each month to fund veg-friendly poverty and hunger alleviation projects in developing nations.  

 


A Well-Fed World is proud to partner with the International Fund for Africa to sponsor the Ethiopian Vegan Association Conference.

Each Ethiopian Vegan Feeding Program event feeds vegan food to more than 100 homeless people, including children.

 


A Well-Fed Florida is a member of AWFW's Adopt-a-Community program. The group participates in food distribution activities focusing on families in need, providing nutritious, vegan food relief.

 


DC Fruit and Vegetable Program is a DC-based campaign working to promote healthy eating and the increased consumption of fruit and vegetables. 

 

 

 


Earthworks Urban Farm is a 1.5 acre farm, apiary and direct feeding program of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen in Detroit, Michigan. Seeking to bolster sustainable agricultural practices in urban areas, Earthworks works closely with the Department of Health to help promote the consumption of fresh vegetables among low-income families. 

 

 


The Ethiopian Solar Village is creating a community in which the production of power, water and food is done on-site with total use of “off-the-shelf appropriate technologies.” This gives individuals the opportunity to use the food grown to directly feed those in need.

 


  Feed DC is part of the A Well-Fed DC program. It consists of volunteers providing free vegan meals to the hungry in the District of Columbia. Food is also shared with general public around the nation's capital at concerts, festivals and other public events.



Food For Life Global among its many objectives, works to provide plant-based meals to the malnourished, disadvantaged and disaster victims. 


 


HIPPO is a campaign of the International Vegetarian Union (IVU) working hard for changes with regard to the direction of world agriculture.

HIPPO is involved in projects mostly in Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda), but also sends vegan food aid to Russia, Bosnia, and Croatia.

 


The Liberia Animal Welfare Society (LAWS) has been serving and protecting the animals in Liberia. LAWS will soon break ground on a vegetable garden project at four selected schools. The vegetables grown by the students will be served once a week. LAWS believes that by promoting plant based foods within schools, students will begin to embrace their innate love for animals and the need to protect their welfare.  

 


Meds & Food for Kids (MFK) is dedicated to saving the lives of Haiti's malnourished children and other nutritionally vulnerable people. Since 2003 MFK has been doing just that by producing and distributing highly nutritious foods including Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF). Haitians call the RUTF "Medika Mamba," meaning "Peanut Butter Medicine" in Creole, and MFK develops, produces, and distributes this RUTF in Haiti. 

 


Organic Agriculture Centre of Kenya is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to raise awareness about organic agriculture in Kenya and work with Kenyan farmers to achieve food security. OACK is proposing a new project to train young people gardening skills through organic vegetable garden projects.  It is hoped that this new activity will empower Kenyan youth to develop an understanding of the importance of gardening for sustainable food production and provide direct food aid to families in need.


Plenty International will use this grant to support nutrition supplementation to children attending day care and school at a women’s cooperative in Guatemala City called Unidas Para Vivir Mejor (United to Live Better). 

 

 


The Sera Je Food Fund offers 1300 monks quality meals at Sera Je for the rest of their lives. Before the food fund, most monks at Sera Je never had a full stomach. Now, for the first time, they are well nourished, content and full. Because of the fund, there has been a dramatic difference in the energy with which they are able to devote to their studies.

 

 


VegFam helps people around the world by providing funds for self-supporting, sustainable food projects and the provision of safe drinking water. The organization funds ethically sound plant-food projects: seeds and tools for vegetable growing, fruit and nut tree planting, irrigation and water wells and also funds for emergency feeding in times of crisis. 

 


We Feed Our People (WFOP) provides a nutritious meal and warm clothing for homeless citizens throughout Washington, DC. When WFOP was first launched in 1988, programs that provided food for the homeless community, did not provide meals on Sundays and holidays. As a result the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday would be a day of sacrifice to those that he dedicated his life attempting to help.

 

 


Working Villages International is a non-profit organization dedicated to building self-sufficient, environmentally sustainable villages all over the world. WVI is building a pilot village the Ruzizi Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which will act as a living blueprint for effective, long-term African development. Instead of solving problems at the symptom level, WVI addresses the root causes of hunger, unemployment and violence using a development model that can be adjusted to almost any region in the world.

 


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