ACT4Hunger
Free plant-based meals for people in need.
- 3,245,665Meals servedCumulative since 2020
- 753,184 kgFood provided to peopleCumulative since 2020
- 864,320Meals served in 2025India included
Places you can support directly
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The weekly meal in Skopje
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The Frankfort food pantry
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The programmes inside it
- No Child Left BehindACT’s South African feeding work — regular meals in three cities and at the Mohanji Centre of Benevolence, and the hampers and bears that go with them.
- Community Food PantryA volunteer-led food pantry in Frankfort, Ohio, run with local churches and donors.
- School meals in StangerWeekly meals for children at rural schools around Stanger, and for elders in the same communities.
- The Guardians of the Mother EarthFood rations carried by truck, then by mule, to the Wiwa, Arhuaco and Kogi communities of the Sierra Nevada.
- ACT4SriLanka community kitchenThe emergency appeal ACT raised during Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, and the kitchen it paid for.
- Weekly street meals in SkopjeA weekly distribution to people sleeping rough in Skopje, served in front of the Mother Teresa Monument.
- Dormitory rations in the UAEMonthly hygiene kits and groceries for women, and weekly dry food for men, living in workers’ dormitories.
ACT4Hunger was founded on 11 May 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, as a joint platform with Ammucare and Mohanji Foundation. Its stated motto is food beyond species — set down at the time as being “in recognition of the ancient values of honoring all species and acknowledging hunger as a universal emotion”.
That is why ACT's tables count kilograms of food for animals alongside meals for people, and why every meal is plant-based. The first distribution under the banner was in Qatar on 19 May 2020, eight days after the platform was formed.
Today it runs as community kitchens, food pantries and ration distribution across ACT's country teams — from a weekly meal for people sleeping rough in Skopje, to the Frankfort Community Food Pantry in Ohio, to dry rations for dormitory workers in the UAE.
Places this reaches
- Over 25 countries
- Nonoti, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Skopje, North Macedonia
- Frankfort, Ohio, United States
- London, United Kingdom
- United Arab Emirates
- Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina