February 2026 Impact Report
This is our first monthly Challenge Report. We’re pulling back the curtain and showing you exactly what your commitment is making possible, where we stand on the road to 100 billion meals, the real lives being changed right now, and the momentum still building.
The start of 2026 has been extraordinary. Read on, this is your impact in the world.
🌏 GAZA — Relief Delivered in the Hardest Conditions
When almost no one could get in, your mission did.
In less than three months, working through carefully secured humanitarian channels in an active conflict zone, aid reached families facing winter exposure, child malnutrition, and near-total supply collapse. Here’s what that looked like on the ground:
This wasn’t just food. It was survival, delivered to people who had almost nothing left.
🌏 SUDAN — First Responders in a Complex Crisis
When El Fasher fell and humanitarian access collapsed overnight, the 100 Billion Meals Challenge was already moving.
Within weeks of the crisis deepening, new operational partnerships were built from scratch, supplies were moved through insecure territory, and people who had been suddenly cut off from everything received what they needed to live. In just two months:
This is what it looks like when a global mission refuses to wait.
🗺️ THE BIGGER PICTURE — A Challenge Going Global
What began as urgent intervention is becoming something far larger… a sustained, multi-nation capacity to reach vulnerable people at a scale the world has rarely seen.
The challenge isn’t slowing down. It’s accelerating.
✨ ARTISTS STEPPING UP TO JOIN THE CAUSE
As many of you know, we had the incredible privilege of bringing together some of the greatest artists in the world to the iHeart Theatre to do a new song inspired by the 40 year anniversary of We Are the World and Live Aid. The debut song, Someday Has Come Pt. 1, produced by Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Dr. Dre, was released on Christmas Day and marks just the beginning of what this community of artists is building together.
During Grammys weekend, over 60 artists took the pledge to commit 100 minutes a year to fight hunger. This is the Next Verse Collective, a growing movement of musicians, artists, athletes and celebrities uniting to build a movement bringing new voices and new reach to the work you’re already doing.
WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
We could keep sharing numbers. But behind every single one is something deeply human:
A child who can sleep tonight.
A parent who finds a moment of relief.
A community that keeps hope alive.
And here’s the truth: none of it happens without people like you… people willing to show up, stay committed, and keep going month after month, even when the road to 100 billion meals feels long.
It is long. That’s what makes it worthy of all of us.
You are part of something the world will look back on. And as long as there are meals still needed, the challenge continues, with you in it.
Thank you. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.
Onward— Together,
The 100 Billion Meals Challenge Team 👋
