Food Aid

Our Sisters and Brothers are Starving to Death

Hunger is still the world’s top health risk—it kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.

More than 820 MILLION of our sisters and brothers around the world suffer in excruciating hunger every day. And hunger doesn’t discriminate: People in all parts of the world are literally starving to death, from sub-Saharan Africa, where one in four is malnourished, to the United States, where one in nine Americans are food insecure.

Islamic Relief’s Dedication to Fighting Hunger

Food aid is the largest sector of Islamic Relief USA’s humanitarian aid. Our food aid programs range from worldwide distribution during the Ramadan and Qurbani seasons; to mobilized deliveries in the wake of disasters; to food pantries that provide easy access to quality food. Across the globe, we’re working hard to make sure that our neighbors have enough to eat.

Here’s just a sampling of our recent efforts to fight hunger:

• Improving food security by building integrated agricultural livelihood programs in Malawi
• Providing nutritious, halal Qurbani meat for more than 948,000 people across 32 countries in 2019
• Distributing Ramadan food packages for nearly 230,000 people to provide them with staple foods

We Need YOUR Help

The world still needs our help. Together we can work together for a world free of hunger. That is only possible with your support.

$700 can support microfinancing efforts that give families in need livestock to raise for the Qurbani season

$125 can help deliver urgent food aid in times of emergency

$50 can send a family a food package for Ramadan

PLEASE NOTE: Donations made to IRUSA’s Food Aid fund may serve urgent or long-term food programs in the United States or across the world.

“He is not a believer who fills his stomach while his neighbor goes hungry.”

(Bukhari)