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Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Freedom from Hunger Present Research at Global Microcredit Summit
Freedom from Hunger today announced that Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, and president of Freedom from Hunger, Dr. Christopher Dunford, will be participating together in a panel at the upcoming Global Microcredit Summit. The event is taking place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 12-15, 2006.

Freedom from Hunger Brings work of Nobel Prize Winner to the World
Today, the Nobel Peace Prize winner was announced. Muhammad Yunus pioneered a program known as micro-credit that provides a self-help solution to the problem of poverty in very poor countries. In fact, Mr. Yunus sits on the Ambassadors Council for Freedom from Hunger.

Nike Foundation Supports Freedom from Hunger's Focus on Adolescent Girls in India
Freedom from Hunger announced it will support the design and launch of an innovative program that will give adolescent girls in India meaningful options to realize their potential, including alternatives to early marriage. This three-year program will be supported through a $1 million grant from the Nike Foundation.

Porter Novelli Partners with Freedom from Hunger
Porter Novelli has begun working with Freedom from Hunger, a global non-profit organization dedicated to lifting women and their families from the cycle of hunger and poverty. In this partnership, Porter Novelli will help Freedom from Hunger raise awareness for its Reach for Three Million plan and high-impact malaria initiative, as well as increase general name recognition among the organization's target audiences.

Freedom from Hunger Celebrates 60 Years Fighting Global Hunger
In 1946, one man had the vision of ending world hunger. Clifford E. Clinton had been raised in China, where he saw people starve to death. He dreamed of a world without hunger and went to work to create that world.

Fighting Poverty and Hunger in Mexico
According to the World Bank, 53 percent of Mexico's population is poor (living on less than $2 per day), while close to 24 percent is extremely poor (living on less than $1 per day). These families are “foodinsecure,” meaning they cannot meet even their most basic nutritional needs for some or all of the year.

Citigroup Donates US$3.9 Million to Financial Education for the Poor
Citigroup today announced a US$3.9 million grant to teach millions of poor people around the world about important financial concepts that will help them make more informed financial decisions and improve their standard of living.

Freedom from Hunger Plans To Reach 3 Million By 2010
The urgent need to help the chronically poor was made heartbreakingly clear this year as hurricanes, earthquakes and the tsunami revealed just how vulnerable poor families are when disaster strikes.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Awards
Six Million Dollar Grant to Combine
Microcredit with Health Protection for World’s Poorest
Freedom from Hunger announced today that it has received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for $6 million to combine micro-loans with health protection services for the world’s rural poor (PDF).

Credit with Education is Coming to Peru
Freedom from Hunger strives to bring Credit with Education to every corner of the globe where women and their families are living in poverty. Soon that will include Peru, thanks to a generous grant from Doe Run Peru and facilitated by its parent company, the St. Louis-based Doe Run Company.