Food for the Hungry is an international organization that exists to fulfil a mandate to help people overcome both physical and spiritual hungers. Its efforts include integrated, child-focused development and relief programmes in more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Development efforts include programmes that equip entire communities with the tools they need to pull themselves from poverty. Hunger Notes is a quarterly print and online publication of the World Hunger Education Service (WHES). It has been published for 24 years. The mission of WHES is to undertake programmes which: inform the community of people interested in issues of hunger and poverty, the public, and policymakers, about the causes, extent, and efforts to end hunger and poverty in the USA and the world; further understanding which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on hunger and poverty; facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions; promote individual and collective commitment to solutions to the hunger and poverty which confront hundreds of millions of the people of the world.