Good News About Food

Celebrating innovative ways that we're ensuring equitable access to food — and ways that food is being used for good

Abebech Gobena with Germany's first lady

The World Is Celebrating the Life of Abebech Gobena — the Ethiopian Humanitarian Known as ‘Mother Teresa of Africa’

Abebech Gobena led an incredible life: after escaping from a forced marriage as a child bride, Gobena went on to become a huge icon in Africa. In Ethiopia, she took her experiences and built an orphanage, schools, a hospital for women and children, and more...
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Sustainable Garden Program

This Sustainable Gardening Program Is Providing Prisoners With Valuable Job Skills

Lettuce Grow serves 200 incarcerated people in Oregon each year, providing them with valuable job skills, delicious food, and a respite from the drudgery of prison life.
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Feeding America Volunteers

How Feeding America Has Shifted Their Operations During The Coronavirus Pandemic

For more than 40 years, Feeding America has responded to the needs of individuals struggling with food insecurity in this country. It’s now the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, serving one in seven Americans.
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Yassin's Falafel House: All Sizes, All Colors, All Ages, All Sexes, All Cultures, All Religions, All Types, All Beliefs, All People, Safe Here

A Syrian Refugee's Falafel Shop Is "The Nicest Place in America"

In many places around the world, strangers aren’t welcome. But at Terou’s restaurant, all people are welcome. Many of the employees at the shop are also refugees, immigrants, or Muslims.
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Smiley Face

13 Good News Stories to Leave You Feeling Good This Week

Good news stories from around the world — from ending student lunch debt in Seattle, to a neo-Nazi removing his swastika tattoos. There's so much good to celebrate.
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Bags of rice and grains

World Hunger: A Winnable War

Today, the approximate number of malnourished people in the world is 795 million. That’s a big number, but it’s 216 million fewer than there were 12 years ago. 
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