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Support the World Food Program With a Banner
To become an effective member of the social good movement doesn’t mean you have to partake in huge humanitarian efforts or donate tons of money to causes you care about. Social good can be witnessed in a single tweet, blog post, or even placing a badge about a cause whose work you admire on your…
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Where Does the G8 Stand On Its 2009 $22B Pledge to End Hunger?
Photo Above: Small-holder farm where Kenyan woman farmer, Teresia (right) plants cabbage and other vegetables. She also owns a small dairy cooperative. Last Friday the NGO world applauded the announcement of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a new $3B commitment by G-8 nations, African countries and private sector partners to lift 50…
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World Food Program: Feeding Women, Girls, Families
Yesterday I tuned into the World Food Program USA’s webcast, Mothers Rule the World, where those of us online learned about WFP’s efforts to feed women and girls in the developing world and thereby their entire families. Hosting the web cast was Isatou Jallow, chief of women, children and gender policy at the U.N. World…
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World Food Programme Reaches Remote Areas for Food Relief
I am always amazed by the lengths at which the World Food Programme goes to feed people in need. Last Wednesday evening I participated in a Google+ Hangout with the World Food Programme’s team in Nepal. Two members of the Nepalese food relief team said it can take at least three days to deliver food…
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[Infographic] Nourishing 50 Million Moms and Children Around the World
If there is one global issue I am highly concerned about it’s food security. It literally pains me that there are children who woke up this morning and won’t eat all day. All day! It saddens me that there is a breastfeeding mom somewhere in the world who can’t get the proper nourishment to feed…