Archive for the 'Facts & Statistics' Category

Pakistan disaster relief is still not what it should be. More aid is needed, and needed now. William Lambers makes a good case with the excellent historical comparison in the blog posting reprinted below. The aid promised is still almost a hundred million dollars short of expected needs. Food is especially needed.
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The following (edited) article appeared in REUTERS, yesterday. It provides a clear picture of the devastation caused by the the flooding. It also gives a clear warning of the present and growing danger facing the survivors.
Stop Hunger Now is working to provide aid for these victims, but we need help. Please respond. Working together we can help avert [...]

The real real reason there are over a billion hungry people in the world is not a lack of resources. The only reason there are over 25,000 of our family dying every day because of hunger is that there is not the political will to eradicate this global scourge.
Ending the obscenity of hunger in our [...]

The new blog site I discovered this morning had a interesting name: Desertification. It is excellent.The writer, Willem van Cotthem, does a masterful job of bring forward issues of climate change and food security. The site is definitely worth a look.

Food Crisis Threatens Bolivia Due to Climate Change
2010-08-23 10:54:32     Xinhua      Web Editor: Zhang Xu
Persistent drought, cold [...]

The flooding in Pakistan continues to exact a horrendous toll. In this excellent article by Willam Lambers, he reports on the WFP assessment that more relief aid is desperately needed.
Stop Hunger Now continues to work with our partners, but far more needs to be done. Please consider helping. Food is needed for six million victims.

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The world does not say: blessed are the poor.    The world says blessed are the rich. You are worth as much asyou have.    But Christ says: wrong. Blessed are the poor, for theirs is thekingdom of heaven, because they do not put their trust inwhat is so transitory.                                                  

                                        Archbishop Oscar Romero                                        The Violence of Love
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FAO launches hunger campaign in Ghana
Joseph Appiah-Dolphyne, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Africa is set to launch an international campaign against hunger in Ghana this week. The 1billionhungry campaign highlights the growing problem of global hunger which now affects more than one billion people worldwide.

 
The aim of the [...]

In response to the growing crisis in Niger, the UN is acting to mitigate this tragedy. There are over seven million in Niger at extreme risk of starvation, yet it doesn’t make primetime news…

UN emergency fund allocates more resources to hunger-stricken populationPublished on Aug 16, 2010 – 8:51:51 AM
By: UN News
Aug. 16, 2010 – In an effort to [...]