Archive for the 'Hunger & Poverty' 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 FAO Hunger Campaign which I discussed in my August 22nd post has now been offically launched in Ghana. The global campaign was launched in May and is designed to collect over one million signatures to present to the United Nations on World Food Day, October 16, 2010.
This article is taken from GhanaNewsNow.com.

The Food and [...]

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 [...]

This morning in Chapel Hill, Stop Hunger Now held the second of this year’s University Million Meal events. Once again, I came away from the event with my spirit renewed and my batteries fully recharged.
Over 500 students from University of North Carolina, North Carolina Central University and Peace all joined forces to package over 100,000 meals [...]

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.

Urgent [...]

“Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.”                                                                        Martin Luther King, Jr

Dr. King got [...]