Over 1.5 million Filipinos recently received much-needed rice and relief goods from RISE Against Hunger (RAH), a non-government organization that partnered with more than 50 corporate partners, including Japan Tobacco International (JTI) Philippines, to address poverty and hunger in the country amidst the scourge of Covid-19.
More than 400,000 families throughout the archipelago were particularly targeted through JTI’s network. RAH aims to end hunger by 2030 in the Philippines where an estimated 4 million families, or 16 percent of the population, experienced hunger, double the pre-pandemic levels of 8.8 percent in December 2019.
