Monday, July 10, 2006

25,000 die of hunger every day

"....The international community needs to increase funding to the United Nations World Food Programme, the organization at the front line of feeding the hungry. It was failure to fund the World Food Programme that led to a tragic cut in food rations for the war refugees in the Sudan during May. Today, it is feared that food shortages in the Sudan will jeopardize a recent peace agreement that ended fighting between rebels and the government....

The World Food Programme states that 800 million people suffer from hunger. The international community has to properly fund these humanitarian crises around the globe...
The U.S. Food for Peace program is a major donor to the World Food Programme....

United States leadership is again needed to rally the world in increasing funding for the World Food Programme to avoid tragedies such as the cutting of rations in the Sudan....

Increased donations will also help build infrastructure in underprivileged countries. In the Sudan, the World Food Programme is helping construct roads for a faster movement of supplies. Other aid programs improve food security and storage to preserve stock....



Summary of article: Bad USA won't give money to the magic UN to eliminate hunger...bad USA...bad USA...UN can go poof and no more hunger, but you bad people won't give the bloated UN bureaucracy money....waaaah...
Of course, we must forgive the writer, whose expertise is NOT Africa but peacemaking on a global scale...in other words, a big shot...

Not mentioned in the article: The dirty little secret that churches, mosques, temples, and small private organizations do quite a bit to eliminate hunger at the grass roots level

Also not mentioned: The fact that bad governance, corruption, and war is a major cause of hunger.

Also not mentioned: The fact that globalization and corporate investment and the development of local entrepeneurs has eliminated poverty in many countries...

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