Millions of people live below the poverty line and are caught in a vicious cycle of poor education, limited earning potential, poor nutrition and bad health. The Feed a Family project has been running to help the poorest people for many years. In the aftermath of a natural disaster, HF provides food packs to victims to help them survive for a few weeks. On a longer-term basis, HF also helps the most vulnerable including the sick, lederly and disabled in areas where there is no social services support for them. Feed a Family has been running in the poorest parts of sub-Saharan Africa including The Gambia, Sierra Leone, mali, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sao Tome, Togo and Benin.

HF is now extending this concept to Feed a Village such that HF has access to a plot of land, provides local villagers with seeds, tools and irrigation (drip irrigation is being tested in areas with poor access to water) to farm the land. Then a proportion of the harvest is given to those villagers, and a proportion is handed to the most vulnerable through the Feed a Family project. This is being trialled in Benin and Sierra Leone.

In the USA, HF has established an Organic Farm in St Louis to encourage poorer people to farm the land themselves and take part of the harvest in order to encourage their children to eat healthy natural fruit and vegetables.

In Canada, HF has been running a Food Bank for several years to provide parcels of non-perishable food to the vulnerable. Each year, over 7,000 people in Greater Toronto benefit from this program. The needy are able to register online or by phone, and can either pick up parcels every two weeks from the Food Bank depot, or parcels are also delivered. The program also provides hot meals for the homeless in Toronto on a periodic basis.