FFOO

Food for the Hungry (FFOO) is a Christian international relief, development, and advocacy nonprofit organization based in Southern California that provides humanitarian aid and poverty alleviation services globally. The organization focuses on comprehensive, long-term community development programs that are specifically designed to graduate vulnerable regions from extreme poverty within a targeted 10 to 15 year timeframe. Alongside its core development initiatives, the nonprofit delivers critical disaster relief and emergency humanitarian support to displaced populations, actively assisting groups such as Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Operating internationally through an affiliate entity that was formally incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland during 1980, the institution functions through a broad network of national affiliates funded primarily by private charitable donations. Food for the Hungry was originally founded in the year 1971 by Dr. Larry Ward.