After eight years delivering food to vulnerable communities, our Food Bank reflects on what a week of conversation about hunger reveals about food insecurity, child nutrition, and the importance of strengthening access to food and collective action.

Food insecurity is not caused by a lack of food, but by the lack of consistent access. Understanding food access is key to strengthening food security.

In Peru, more than 1.7 million older adults live in conditions of vulnerability, and according to public records, over 30% of them face abandonment, social isolation, or lack of basic resources.

Every day, over 1.9 million people in Peru live in extreme poverty, facing not just hunger — but despair.

Every year, nearly 50% of the food produced worldwide never reaches a plate.

Every year, the world wastes more than 12 million tons of food, while millions of vulnerable seniors and families suffer from hunger and abandonment.

In the most forgotten areas of the country, there are mothers who can only offer one meal a day to their children.

In remote rural communities, malnutrition, anemia, and neglect are daily challenges. Children go days without fresh fruit.

The face of poverty in Peru has changed, but its pain remains the same.

In many parts of Latin America, old age is a chapter marked by abandonment, illness, and food insecurity.