"We find kids that are severely malnourished, kids who aren't going to make it unless they get some food." 

- Pat Bradley, International Crisis Aid

It's hard for most of us to imagine being truly hungry - not just cutting our food budget by eating in, but battling the prospect of starvation on a daily basis. 

International Crisis Aid* is a group that specializes in helping those who bigger organizations have overlooked. They've shown up in places as extreme as the mountains of Afghanistan despite ongoing war, run health clinics and combatted sex trafficking, but today we want to talk about their food program in Ethiopia.

For $1, you can feed someone for five days. 

"The single most severe problem we deal with Ethiopia, especially for children under three years of age, is that the whole family is malnourished," explains President Pat Bradley. "The mother is malnourish to the point where she can't produce milk, so we provide food for the child, but also put the whole family into the feeding program." 

Not only is someone's son or daughter fed (a diet of Plumpy'nut donated to International Crisis Aid - a supplement that isn't purchased with that $1 metric), but they'll also send the family home with a simple wheat flour, oil, spice mixture as well. 

And rather than horde the food in a central location for daily distribution, International Crisis Aid gives away an entire month's supply, so that participants can enjoy the simple normalcy of family meals. 

"It's so the parents feed the family, not some foreign ngo," explains Bradley. 

* Historically, Philanthroper does not feature groups with religious, faith-based missions as personal beliefs vary intensely. In full disclosure, International Crisis Aid is a Christian organization, though as they explained, "we're interested in the person, we're not interested in what religion they are."