Freedom from Hunger

Steve Hollingworth. Steve has more than 26 years of extensive experience in international development. He has served as a Program Officer in Lesotho, advanced to be a Deputy Country Director in Bolivia, and then became Country Director in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India where he developed microfinance and livelihood programs for very poor people when he worked for CARE, a humanitarian organization… See full bio.

Read Annual Report	Overhead Ratio: 18.78%
Charity Navigator Rating: (profile)	Total Revenue: $8,595,502

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Website:	http://www.freedomfromhunger.org	Address:	P.O. Box 2000
E-Mail:	info AT freedomfromhunger.org		Davis, CA 95617, USA
Phone:	530-758-6200 ext. 1042
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Story: Read about the story of Assa Fofana, a woman in Mali: For Assa Fofana, nothing is simple. If her child comes down with malaria—common in Mali—she cannot sell vegetables at the market so that her children have enough to eat that day. Instead, she stays home with her sick child. Savings set aside to buy food during the hungry season are spent on malaria medicine. She needs a loan to grow her business and earn more money, but her rural village is beyond the reach of banks and even most microcredit providers. School is expensive in Mali, but she knows her children’s education is vital for her family to end generations of poverty and hunger. (Read other stories at: http://www.freedomfromhunger.org/bytes/women/)

Evidence of Impact Summary:

Freedom from Hunger’s 49 staff have trained and supported 150 partners in 19 countries, who are currently reaching more than 3.9 million people (almost all women in poor rural communities) and benefiting a total of over 21 million, when their family members are included.

Organization Strengths Summary:

Microfinance experts believe that Freedom from Hunger’s strength is that they have a strong health education program incorporated into their microfinance program. Additionally, they focus on the poor and use impact evaluation to help them innovate and provide better services.
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Areas for Improvement Summary:

At the same time, experts believe that they can expand in terms of size, technical team, and number of microfinance institutions with whom they partner. They should also focus more on their finances to become more efficient and continue to build their health education program.
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Steve has more than 26 years of extensive experience in international development. He has served as a Program Officer in Lesotho, advanced to be a Deputy Country Director in Bolivia, and then became Country Director in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India where he developed microfinance and livelihood programs for very poor people when he worked for CARE, a humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. He also led programs that addressed maternal and child health, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and gender equity. While in Northern Afghanistan, he led emergency response programs before becoming Chief Operating Officer at CARE's Atlanta headquarters in 2007, where he had direct line-management responsibility for global operations, fundraising and programs in a variety of fields, including micro-enterprise and microfinance, civil society strengthening, local capacity building, local governance and emergency relief and rehabilitation. Steve holds a B.A. in Economics from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and an M.A. in Economics from the Victoria University of Manchester in Manchester, England.

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