Hunger | -World Disasters Report 2011 : focus on hunger and malnutrition-

This year’s World Disasters Report  from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) focuses on the growing crisis of hunger and malnutrition. Smallholder farmers who produce half the world’s food are among the almost 1 billion people who go to bed hungry every night. Millions of children suffer the irreversible effects of [...]

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Hunger|-the poverty problem.-

The poor in developing countries are trapped. They lack: education | good nutrition | and a safe place to raise their families. They cope with: harsh social | economic | and environmental hardships. Poverty problems are extensive and complex: Inherited hunger | chronic malnourishment | and stunted growth. These serious effects reach far into adulthood. [...]

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Measuring Human Rights (22): When Can You Call Something a “Famine”?

(source) With yet another famine in the Horn of Africa, perhaps it's a good time for a few words about famine measurement. People have a right to adequate nourishment and to be free from chronic hunger (see article 25 of the Universal Declaration). Starvation is an extreme form of violation of this right (and is [...]

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A Humble Ending | Honduras LT.

The Last Morning Sometimes, you don't wake up excited to serve. You wake up, marinated in your selfish desires, ready to make the day about YOU, rather than God. That's where I found myself Saturday, July 30– my last day in Honduras. I felt as though my work there w … Read More via The [...]

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Seeing and hearing 350, listening to the compassionate yet professional Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN’s World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry… (via Lectio Divina, or daily seeings)

 If you have some sympathy for your fellow human beings then you cannot not watch this video.   … Read More via Lectio Divina, or daily seeings

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Inside world’s biggest refugee camp.

by Nazanine Moshiri, AJE reporter I have been to refugee camps before, but nothing on the sheer scale of Dadaab. The camp was only supposed to house tens of thousands, but according to the latest UNHCR figures there are now more than 370,000 people here. An additional 10,000 or so people still unregistered – add [...]

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A DIFFERENT KIND OF POVERTY

In Sub-Saharan Africa, poverty is not the result of laziness or unwillingness to work. It is poverty without the knowledge, means or opportunity to make lasting change. I can’t tell you the number of times someone has told me, “We have plenty of needy people right here in our country.” The implication is, if I [...]

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