Food Program: a world where all children are well-nourished
Good nutrition is essential for child survival and development. Well-nourished children are stronger and more resilient. They are better able to grow, learn, play, and participate in school and community life. Yet, children around the world are suffering from hunger, making them particularly vulnerable to life-threatening diseases. According to research, nearly 8 million children are at risk of dying from severe malnutrition without immediate treatment. This represents one child every 60 seconds in 15 countries affected by the crisis. In Africa, many families lack equal access to nutritious, safe, and affordable food, or to clean and potable water. Families around the world are doing everything they can to ensure the health of their children, but the challenges of conflict and extreme weather are proving too much to bear. At Source of Life for Children Foundation, we envision a world where every child is well-nourished. Good nutrition is essential for health and development, and our goal is to ensure that children, women, and adolescent girls and boys across our global programming reach are well-nourished.
Hunger should not be an issue in today's world
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We are making progress. Last years, with support from our members and partners, Source of Life Children Foundation provided life-saving food assistance to 3,400 people in four countries. We focus on the most vulnerable, including malnourished babies and elderly people in Soweto, Wirima, Simankwala, Buluo, Ditengwa, Ngeleka, Mbaya, Kyantete and Kankunka villages experiencing conflict and famine. Additionally, we have provided emergency food assistance in Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo when crises or conflicts have disrupted livelihoods and markets. We use cash and voucher assistance to build long-term food security and resilience in Soweto, South Africa, where markets are available, but food is unaffordable; Hence the community is provided food vouchers. But much more needs to be done.
Source of Life Children Foundation believes a hunger-free world is possible. We advocate for policy changes that help improve the food and nutrition security of the world’s most vulnerable children, families, and communities.
Meeting immediate food needs helps free families to invest in making their farms more productive, their meals more nutritious, and their children better educated, cared for and protected.
*Facts and figures based on 2019 to 2025 data.
Good nutrition is the basis for child survival and development.
Good nutrition is essential for child survival and development. But today, many children do not receive the nutrients they need to survive and thrive. This is especially the case for the most vulnerable children: the youngest, the poorest, and those caught up in conflict or humanitarian crises. According to studies, at least one in three children under the age of 5 suffers from malnutrition in its most visible forms: undernutrition or overweight. Undernourished children can be affected in a variety of ways, such as short height for their age and potentially incomplete brain development. This hinders their ability to learn as a child, earn a living as adults, and participate actively in their communities. Their immune systems are weakened, and their risk of disease is increased. These children are also deficient in vitamins and other essential micronutrients. These children require urgent treatment to survive.
Being overweight, another form of malnutrition, increases the risk of childhood obesity and certain diseases. It can also lead to behavioural and emotional problems, such as stigma, low self-esteem, and depression. Such deficiencies lead to delayed physical growth, a weakened immune system and impaired brain development.
Today, many countries are facing malnutrition, and the need for essential nutrition services and practices continues to grow.
Source of Life Children Foundation runs nutrition programs in Central and Southeast African countries to reach children, adolescents and women the moment it matters most. Everywhere we operate, we work to prevent malnutrition in all its forms. Where prevention fails, treatment is essential. The Source of Life Children Foundation improves children’s access to nutritious, affordable and sustainable food. We support essential nutrition services that keep children and women well nourished. We also protect and promote positive feeding, dietary and care practices.
What Services Do We Offer?
Source of Life Children Foundation works around the world, particularly in Africa – including in some of the hardest-to-reach places – to help children and vulnerable people grow up healthy and happy.
Where is Our Office Located?
Source of Life Children Foundation is headquartered in Australia. It also has regional offices in Southeastern and Central Africa, including Malawi, Democratic Republic of Congo and others.
What are Our Opening Hours?
Our office and contact hours in Australia are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm AEST/AEDT. However, you may receive calls from our teams up until 8pm in your state.
If you’d like to chat to us, you can call us on +61 411 589 619 or submit an enquiry; we endeavour to respond to all enquiries as soon as possible.
Take Action - Get Involved
We are making progress. But there’s more to be done. All children have the right to a safe, inclusive and quality health environment. We want all children to be healthy for life, in a safe and nurturing environment, in order to lead productive and fulfilling lives. Find volunteer or giving opportunities that use your time, resources, and talents to help children and families around the world.
Food program - Feeding Bodies and Minds: We Change Lives
Here is a more detailed overview of our nutritional programs:
- Emergency Food Aid:
Source of Life Children Foundation delivers immediate food aid helping to save lives and support communities in need. - Long-Term Food Security:
Beyond immediate relief, we focus on empowering communities to become self-reliant and achieve long-term food security. - Increasing Agricultural Productivity:
Source of Life Children Foundation works to improve farming practices, provide access to better seeds, and help farmers access markets to sell their surplus. - Improving Nutrition:
Source of Life Children Foundation also focuses on teaching families about nutrition and dietary diversity, promoting the consumption of nutritious foods. - Sustainable Resource Management:
We emphasize sustainable practices to protect the environment and ensure long-term food production, including preventing soil erosion, maintaining soil fertility, and using water efficiently. - Nutrition Education:
We run nutrition education programs to help communities learn about nutritious foods and how to prepare them. - School Meals Programs:
Source of Life Children Foundation is involved in school meals programs, such as soya milk porridge, recognizing the importance of nutrition for children’s health and education.
In a world of abundance, where enough food is produced to feed everyone on the planet, hunger should be a thing of the past. However, conflict, climate change, displacement, economic shocks, and inequality leave millions of people suffering from acute hunger, and famine threatens millions more. For the world’s most vulnerable children, families, and communities in Africa, famine is already a reality.
What Services Do We Offer?
The Source of Life for Children Foundation works to protect the rights of every child, especially the most disadvantaged and hardest to reach. We strive to help children survive, thrive, and achieve their potential across the African continent. We provide and advocate for education, health, and nutrition services. We protect children from violence and abuse. We bring clean water and sanitation to those in need and protect them from climate change and disease. We provide and promote the use of mosquito nets against malaria. We focus on education, gender equality, immunization, children with disabilities, early childhood development, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene. With many years of on-the-ground expertise, a passion for innovation, and a network of teams, Source of Life for Children Foundation transforms its commitment into action.
Where is Our Office Located?
Source of Life Children Foundation is headquartered in Australia. It also has regional offices in Southeastern and Central Africa, including Malawi, Democratic Republic of Congo and others.
Information about contacting this business
Our office and contact hours in Australia are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm AEST/AEDT. However, you may receive calls from our teams up until 8pm in your state.
If you’d like to chat to us, you can call us on +61 411 589 619 or submit an enquiry; we endeavour to respond to all enquiries as soon as possible.
Together we’re making lifesaving impact in the places it’s hardest to be a child.
Become a Hunger and food security relief Partner
Source of Life Children partners with communities to address immediate food needs and to ensure vulnerable communities and families are better equipped and more resilient for the future. You can help ensure children have the nutrition they need, by meeting immediate food needs and empowering families to grow their own sustainable food resources. With your donation, you can help stop hunger for children and families around the world. No child should lack nutritious food. Your donations will multiply 15 times in impact! Monthly giving is the most effective way to help children and families who need it most. Plus, it lowers costs, which means more of your donation helps children!
