The global climate crisis is approaching an alarming stage. The Earth’s average temperature has already exceeded the pre-industrial level by 1.5°C, turning extreme weather into a “new normal”. Heatwaves, droughts, heavy rains, and typhoons are becoming increasingly destructive, threatening global food production and supply stability.
In 2025, severe storms and floods struck several countries in Southeast Asia, submerging farmlands and leaving families without land and livelihoods. Children are caught in a vicious cycle of hunger and malnutrition. The climate crisis is no longer just an environmental concern — it is a dead or alive challenge threatening food security.
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)restores degraded land using the power of “underground forests”. Together with sustainable agroforestry and climate-smart farming, FMNR has helped vulnerable communities in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia rehabilitate land, recover food production, and rebuild community resilience.
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In Niger alone, 6 million hectares of degraded land have been reforested through FMNR without planting a single tree1. This approach has transformed a Kenyan farmer from a charcoal burner into an environmentalist and a passionate FMNR lead farmer.2 By practicing agroforestry and regenerative farming on his regreened land, he now generates a better income. For larger-scale projects, World Vision Ethiopia’s Humbo Community Reforestation Project3 is the first carbon project in Africa under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (UN-CDM)4 to earn certified emission reduction credits. This project has brought remarkable environmental, social, and economic transformation to the farmer community involved by sharing the proceeds from carbon trading.
Our recent research shows that 86% of children living in subdivided flats in Hong Kong have insufficient milk intake, while over 70% fail to meet the recommended daily vegetable intake — revealing a widespread problem of “hidden hunger.” Irregular income, long working hours, and cramped living conditions make it difficult for parents to prepare nutritious meals.
In response, our Nutrition Matters programme has been providing nutrition workshops, recipes, food packs, and professional dietitian support since 2021. Diversified and nutritionally balanced ingredients, selected under the guidance of registered dietitians, are delivered to local grass-roots families with financial difficulties. Messages about nutrition and health are also shared, allowing the families to access nutritious food and learn to choose, mix and match different types of food wisely to improve their eating habits. Our efforts have helped improve children’s diets and health outcomes, with over 10,000 families reached so far.
We invite corporations to encourage staff to Skip-A-Meal between March and August, and donate the money saved to support the Skip-A-Meal campaign. Donations will go towards World Vision’s dual-track initiative—responding to the global climate crisis while addressing local nutrition challenges.
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Any day from March to August, 2026 |
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Skip-A-Meal Poster and Donation Form |
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Enquiries |
Ms Lee, Resource Development Department: (852) 2399 8639 or [email protected] |
Sharing with those in need reveals the love of the Lord.
When we see people facing food shortages because of natural disasters and crises, how can we become vessels God uses to bring them nourishment and hope?
We sincerely invite all churches in Hong Kong to join “One Meal for Hunger” —
an act of sharing to support children and families facing hunger both locally and overseas.
Details of the event are as follows:
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Any date from March to August, chosen
freely by the church (e.g., during Lent or the Passion Week period).
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Fill out the Registration Form and return it to World Vision. |
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Donation |
Please send your donation together with the Donation Form to World Vision. |
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Church Relations Unit: (852) 2399 3430 (Telephone) |
One person really can make a difference—through the power of Skip-A-Meal!
We invite you to join us wherever you are—at home, in school, at the office, or in your community—by skipping a meal on your own or together with your family, classmates, colleagues, or friends. By taking this simple step, you will help provide nutritious food packs for local low-income families and support community-led environmental restoration and regreening projects across the globe.
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Any day from March to August, 2026 |
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Skip a meal and donate its cost to support World Vision to support World Vision's local nutrition and health programmes for vulnerable children, as well as in combating climate change by scaling up community-led environmental restoration and regreening projects. |
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This year’s “Skip-a-Meal” campaign funds will warmly support local nutrition and health initiatives, as well as World Vision’s community-led environmental restoration and regreening projects like FMNR in climate-affected regions.
