If we go by the UN’s Definition, food security means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life.

It is also a well-known fact that Gender Inequality leads to and results from food insecurity. According to estimates, girls and women make up 60% of the world’s chronically hungry, and the world has made little progress in ensuring the equal right to food for women. In fact, at the global level, the gender gap in the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity grew even more significant in the year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since the months, the loss of livelihood amidst social distancing rules has disproportionately affected our slum communities – migrant workers, daily wage earners, the urban poor, and other vulnerable groups of women & children in tens of thousands. From the social development perspective, it has taken us back by at least a decade. As always, the already underprivileged, like the daily wage earners, and women and children who live in urban slums, were among the worst hit.

ALL THE CHILDREN TRUST , which works to empower women and children and old age people in the slums and villages quickly swung into action. Within days, we do Food Support Program ensured the arrangements and distribution of thousands of dry food packets among these slum-dwellers that faced acute food shortages, with a particular focus on reproductive-aged women [15-49 years] and children below five, who are the most susceptible to anemia and malnutrition. These packets, which contain enough flour, rice, pulses, and oil to feed a family of five, were distributed among many places in climaticall crisis over the past year.

ALL THE CHILDREN TRUST also organized camps across these slums to sensitize and generate awareness about the safety measures to avoid infections and the benefits of vaccination against the deadly virus, as well as the importance of nutrition. Between May 2021 and March 2022, these interventions helped over many marginalized families, or Numerous people if we take an average of 5 members per family, living in 38 urban slums in tamilnadu and in the village side , tide over an acute crisis of poverty and hunger.

Of course, this mission would not have been possible without the prompt and generous support of donors who stepped up to help us. Team ALL THE CHILDREN would like to express gratitude to GlobalGiving, we thank all the donors and all the other companies and individuals who helped us with their generous contributions.

We must fight poverty and lack of basics together as we have been doing so far, and we look forward to your continued support.