Take Away Hunger Day: More Than a Meal – You’re Providing a Future

On Take Away Hunger Day, Thursday 21st August, we’re partnering with Feed The Hungry to bring urgent meals to vulnerable refugee children in Uganda – kids who desperately need your help.

Key Points:

Just $6 is all it takes to provide a warm meal (for a month!) to a child who would otherwise go hungry – and it’s more than a meal. You’re giving a child the chance to learn, grow, and dream again.

Refugee children in Uganda are some of the most vulnerable in the world. They’ve fled violence in neighbouring countries, like South Sudan and Sudan, some barely escaping with their lives. They have very little possessions. They’re hungry and struggling to survive.

In refugee settlements, education provides hope for the future. But hungry children will never choose school over food… it’s not really a choice.

On Take Away Hunger Day, you are providing the urgent meals children need right now.

Providing a meal at school every day means children don’t have to worry about their next meal anymore, creating the opportunity to learn.

Through Feed The Hungry’s school-based feeding programs, children also hear about the God who loves them and they find hope for the future.

Meet Isaac: From Hunger to Hope

Isaac is the life of the party. At school, he always draws a crowd of friends and peers who love to listen to his funny stories. He loves football and playing games with his friends. But his open smile and joyful dance moves hide the turmoil this 16-year-old experiences every day when he returns home and finds there’s nothing to eat.

“I came to Uganda when I was very young,” says Isaac, a South Sudanese refugee.

“I don’t have my father or mother. Only my auntie; she’s the one taking care of me.”

Many of his friends in the Kiryandongo refugee settlement are orphaned or separated from their families. The loss makes their very survival even more difficult.

“Everything here, it is too hard because many of us lost our parents,” Isaac says. “We have nothing to eat.”

But through the support of Feed The Hungry, Isaac receives a hot, nutritious lunch at school every day. Each nutritionally reinforced rice pack contains everything he needs to grow healthy and strong.

Importantly, it gives him the energy he needs to concentrate in class and pursue his education.

But your support is urgently needed to continue to provide these life-saving meals.

“A human being cannot stay for the whole day without eating breakfast or lunch, and then you only eat at night. That is impossible!” says Isaac.

“When I come to school, I feel fresh. At lunchtime, it is good, but we encourage you, bring more meals so that we don’t starve.” Isaac, age 19

With the nutrition he needs, Isaac has the energy and strength not just to study but to help his uncle on the weekends, slashing the grass to prepare for the next planting season.

When their crops grow, they will take the first fruits to the church as an offering to God, to thank Him for His provision.

“God is great because He created me and He’s been keeping me for all these years. He is giving me life and He’s also showing me how to get my food,” Isaac said.

My mother was a doctor, and now Isaac is clinging to the hope that he can carry on her legacy of caring for others by becoming a doctor himself.

As he shares a meal – and a funny story – with his friends at lunch, a long way from his homeland and without his parents, he still has hope that the future is bright… thanks to friends like you.

“We pray so that God will help us finish school. When we are healthy, then we can get something good!” says Isaac.

Who is Feed the Hungry?

Feed The Hungry is a Christian non-profit dedicated to feeding the poor, empowering the global Church, and sharing the hope of Jesus.

Feed The Hungry is founded on Matthew 25:35-40 and believes that as Christians we have a biblical responsibility to respond to the injustice of world hunger with actions of compassion that glorify God and affirm His love for a hurting and lost world.

Founded in 1987 by Dr Lester Sumrall, Feed The Hungry has worked in over 93 countries, partnering with local churches to reach those in greatest need.

They oversee the entire relief process to ensure your support reaches the right hands at the right time. Food is distributed directly through trusted local churches—meeting physical needs and sharing the love of Christ with those who are hurting.

Take Away Hunger Day 2025: Will You Help?

Just $6 provides enough meals to feed a refugee child for a whole month!

$60 feeds 10 hungry children

$120 feeds 20 hungry children

$300 feeds 50 hungry children

$600 feeds 100 hungry children – that’s the size of a Ugandan classroom!

$6,000 feeds 1,000 hungry children

Through your generosity today you will provide more than a meal, you’ll help give children hope for the future. Help us be a part of the national effort to feed 140,000 refugee children in Uganda.

Feature image: Supplied (Feed The Hungry)