Palms For Life Fund - A Global Alliance to End Poverty

Palms for Life Fund is a not-for-profit corporation (501(c)(3)) dedicated to ending poverty by addressing its root causes. The funds we raise on behalf of very reputable local NGOs help to alleviate hunger, support education, especially girls’ education, adult literacy, health care for mothers and children and microfinance. With these investments Palms contributes to providing poor people with new opportunities to make the right choice for a better future.

Hannah Laufer-Rottman worked for nearly 30 years with the United Nations World Food Programme, where she held several senior positions. She knows what hungry and poor people experience every day of their life, from her work in 8 different countries in Africa and Latin America. She was a pioneer in designing a strategic plan in Ecuador that created a sustainable social feeding program for which she was able to attract large donations of food and cash. Thanks to her dedication, she brought hunger and poverty relief to millions of people.

She founded Palms for Life Fund as a vehicle to pursue her mission to help the hungry and the poor, and because she firmly believes there can be an end to poverty if we join our palms and reach out to each other.

Hannah has vast experience in managing social development projects; as Executive Director of Palms For Life Fund, she is assisted by a network of highly qualified professionals who currently reside or have lived in poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and worked for large organizations in the public and private sector. This is what makes Palms for Life Fund an exceptional organization: the unconditional social commitment of its team members and friends, and a unified and strong capacity to advocate for the poor.

Palms for Life Fund establishes alliances with organizations that work directly with poor communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America to achieve social, economic and environmentally sustainable development.

Palms raises funds on behalf of those organizations to support projects which have already proven to be effective, and to produce results that have long lasting effects on the participants’ quality of life.

We bring the issues of equality, inclusion and participation on the forefront of our actions and make sure the voice of the poor is being heard loud and clear in all spheres of our society.

Ongoing Projects

Special Projects

Hunger Projects

Educating and Feeding Schoolchildren	Ensuring the Health of Mothers and Infants

Developing Adult Literacy and Work Skills	Empowering Local Organizations

Please click here for the list of our ongoing projects.

Palms uses your donations to reach the poor in the most direct way by partnering with local organizations. Palms acts fast as the aid can not be delayed and people need to get out of poverty NOW!

Feeding and Educating for Life - Donate Now!

With your contribution we will be able to help feed and educate hundreds of poor street children in Ecuador.

Goods for Life - Donate Now!

With your contribution hundreds of computers will be shipped to poor schools in Ecuador. *

* Project executed jointly with Mercy Corps

Because Hunger is Everyone’s Business

Hunger in the US

Do most people in the US really know what it means to go to bed on a hungry stomach? To go to a supermarket and buy cheap bread and a few cans of beans because this will be the meal of the day, for the entire family? To skip meals? To stay in line at the local food bank and receive a basket “for the month” that will only last a week? To send a daughter out on the street at the end of the month with the message: “do whatever you have to do but bring us back some food.”

In 2006, 35.5 million Americans lived in food insecure households, 22.8 million adults and 12.6 million children. The food insecure do not always know where they will find their next meal and are unable to consistently access nutritious and adequate amounts of food necessary for a healthy life. The states with the highest rates of food insecurity are New Mexico, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, and Arkansas.

Malnutrition and hunger have severe adverse affects on the population and affect the entire family life. Malnutrition in children causes irreversible damage to the brain and affects learning abilities throughout life. Young adults who do not get adequate food intake are affected in their physical and emotional development. Pregnant women who are malnourished are at higher risk and give birth to underweight and unhealthy babies. In the elderly, malnutrition accelerates severe health deterioration and early death.

For more information visit the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)

In the US, Palms for Life will join hands with all players already involved in helping the hungry and the food insecure in order to bring the theme of hunger “at everyone’s breakfast table.”

Palms for Life will address issues such as:

The root causes of hunger in the US;
What it means for 35.5 million Americans to be food insecure;
The gap between the rich and the poor and that hunger is unacceptable in the world’s biggest economy and wealthiest democratic nation on earth;
How the unbearable condition of hunger in the US should become a more powerful national priority relying on strong political endorsement; and
The need to re-define and implement a sustainable national hunger elimination strategy.

All funds raised will help promote and support actions committed to changing the face of hunger in the country and contributing to a more equitable society.

For more information, please write to hungry@palmsforlifefund.org

The International Food Security Treaty (IFST)

Palms for Life has joined in partnership with the International Food Security Treaty Association (IFSTA) to further our common goals in the eradication of hunger as a strategic pillar for ending poverty.

The International Food Security Treaty (IFST) Campaign coordinates activities promoting the worldwide adoption and implementation of the IFST, which aims to place the human right of freedom from hunger under the protection of enforceable international law.

The Campaign is directed by its founder, American producer and writer John Teton, who developed the IFST statement of principles in 1993. Throughout its first fifteen years, the IFST Campaign has functioned as an all-volunteer organization, working to gather momentum behind the Treaty Principles among experts, political leaders, religious communities, grassroots networks, and individuals. The organization disseminates information about the IFST through its periodical newsletter, Giant Leap, articles requested by other publications (including WHY Magazine, several annual editions of Bread for the World’s annual Hunger Report, and various newspaper articles), media interviews, and presentations on major university campuses and government meetings including three Congressional briefings.

Further details on the Treaty and the Campaign’s history and activities may be found at the website www.treaty.org.

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Hunger in the US

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