We are a charity registered in England & Wales - our charity number
is 1104289. Our board is made up of six trustees who are responsible for
making sure the foundation is well run and doing what it was set up to
do.
The
innocent foundation finds and funds visionary
people and organisations who are tackling hunger in simple, smart and sometimes
radical ways. We make grants all over the world to achieve two goals:
goal 1: stop children dying from hunger
We’re there
when children need us most, finding and treating kids whose lives are in
immediate danger because of severe hunger. The most serious form of hunger, acute
malnutrition, results in millions of preventable child deaths each year. More
than 70% of children treated are cured, but only 1 in 5 children affected are
able to access the treatment they need. It does not have to be this way.
Our first research project with Action Against
Hunger in Mali proved that you can massively increase the number of children getting
the treatment they need if you make it easy for parents to access care in their
own communities. As a result, the government of Mali changed their national treatment
policy. Now we’re looking for more cutting edge research projects with the same
potential to stop children dying. Co-ordinated global action is the most
effective way to do this, so we belong to the No Wasted Lives coalition which
is accelerating the child survival revolution by working towards doubling the
proportion of children globally receiving treatment for severe acute malnutrition by
2020.
goal 2: help the poorest families feed themselves
One in nine people in the world are hungry
today, but it doesn’t have to be this way. We help the very poorest
families grow
enough to food and earn an income so they can support themselves. We've
done
this since the earliest days of the foundation and have funded 70 food
security
projects globally. In that time, we’ve seen climate change making bad
situations worse, so it’s even more vital that we find long-term
solutions to help the world’s poorest families adapt to face those
challenges and feed
themselves. https://www.innocentfoundation.org/what-we-fund/goal-2-apply-here
Moreinfo: https://www.innocentfoundation.org