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Food Security

Food for today. A stronger tomorrow.

Hunger demands an immediate response, but lasting food security requires more.

HARO helps families facing hunger access food today while investing in local solutions that can strengthen how communities produce, access, and sustain food for the future.

Your gift can help put food on a family's table today and support a future where communities are better equipped to feed themselves.

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Families seated with sacks of food staples at a HARO distribution under an open sky

Food Security Programs

Immediate food for families facing hunger, and the local initiatives that help communities feed themselves for years to come.

Men seated for iftar beneath the HARO Ramadan Iftar Program banner in Garowe, 2025

Food Security Fund

From $50or any amount

Give where the need is greatest.

Give any amount to HARO's Food Security Fund and help meet priority food needs across the Horn of Africa.

Your gift gives HARO the flexibility to respond to urgent hunger, support food distributions, and invest in priority food security efforts where funding can make the greatest difference.

Trucks loaded with green food packages arrive for families gathered at a HARO distribution in Garowe, 2025

Food Packages

$50per family

Help put food on a family's table.

When a family is facing hunger, your gift can help provide the staples they need to prepare meals at home.

Your gift puts food directly into the hands of a family that needs it.

With $50, you can provide one HARO Food Package filled with essential household foods including rice, lentils, wheat, sugar, canned meat, fish, and cooking oil.

Rows of freshly prepared rice, meat and vegetable meals boxed for a HARO hot-meal distribution in Puntland

Hot Meals

$10per meal

Share a hot meal for just $10.

HARO prepares and distributes freshly made meals directly to people facing hunger.

$10 provides 1 hot meal. $50 provides 5. $100 provides 10.

Sustainable food security

Long-term initiatives that strengthen how communities produce and sustain their own food. Choose an amount and help build what comes next.

Rows of young onion plants growing in an irrigated field in Somalia

Agriculture

From $25

Help farmers grow food, income, and opportunity.

HARO invests in local farmers so communities can strengthen their own food production and become less dependent on emergency food assistance.

Your gift helps put practical resources into the hands of farmers so they can grow more food, strengthen their livelihoods, and help feed their communities.

Choose an amount and help a farmer grow what comes next
A smiling man carries a sack of National Bakery flour on his shoulder outside a blue-painted building

Baraka Bakeries

From $25

Bake bread. Create jobs. Feed communities.

Baraka Bakeries is HARO's sustainable food security initiative designed to produce fresh bread for vulnerable families while creating local jobs and opportunity.

Each bakery helps provide bread to families in need while selling additional bread locally to help support its ongoing operations.

Your gift helps create something built to keep giving: bread for families, jobs for local workers, and a bakery designed to serve its community for the long term.

Choose an amount and help build a more sustainable way to fight hunger
HARO Food Security Initiative with One Ummah: a truck loaded with food packages beside the distribution banner in Garowe, April 2025Inside a HARO food package: sacks of rice and flour with jugs of cooking oil
Food Packages

What's Inside?

Each HARO Food Package contains essential household staples families can use to prepare meals at home.

  • Rice
  • Lentils
  • Wheat
  • Sugar
  • Canned Meat
  • Fish
  • Cooking Oil
Give a Food Package — $50
Video testimony

Hear it from a family.

A short film from a HARO food distribution in Somalia.

A mother receives her family's food package · Testimony from a HARO food distribution — Somalia · 0:16

From the archive

Food HARO has already put on tables

Distributions, Ramadan feeding and food relief from HARO's field record.

  1. 2011With WAMY, fed more than 550 families in Kaluun camp, then 1,000+ families at Webi Shabeelle and up to 1,500 at Qalaafe camp with rice, flour, sugar and cooking oil.
  2. 2012The Iftar Project fed 600 of Mogadishu’s neediest fasting people every day of Ramadan at $2 per person.
  3. 2013Ramadan food packs distributed in Hargeisa with the NASREEXO women’s organisation; 403 families in Kismayo received 50 kg of rice each.
  4. 2015A daily iftar centre in Wadajir served cooked rice, meat and vegetables every evening through Ramadan.
  5. 2017Drought response fed 400 displaced families in Xudur, delivered rice and oil to every family at Geedlaawe camp, and reached Sool and Sanaag.
  6. 2018Iftar Project in Garowe; food for hundreds of flood-displaced families in Beledweyne, 250+ families in Awdal after Cyclone Sagar, and 150+ in Dolow.
  7. 2019Ramadan iftar programs ran at the same time in Mogadishu, Garowe and Hargeisa, funded by the Somali community in the USA.
  8. 2024Food packages for orphan-headed and poor families in Eyl, and the Ramadan Iftar Program in Garowe serving hundreds of prepared meals a day.

Food for today. A stronger tomorrow.

Give a family a package of staples, a hot meal to someone facing hunger, or flexible support through the Food Security Fund.

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How we use funds

Your gift delivers food, clean water, healthcare and orphan care across the Horn of Africa — with almost nothing lost along the way.

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Programs
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Management & general admin
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Fundraising

From HARO's 2025 IRS Form 990 — $1.68M of $1.73M in expenses went directly to programs, with no fundraising costs.