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If you want to help Haiti, donate to these organizations

Posted on January 19, 2010 by

Partners in Health’s Stand with Haiti – they have been there forever and have the medical care to provide. World Food Programme – This UN organization gets food and supplies there fast, and efficiently. Concern – can help treat acute … Continue reading →

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Ending hunger in our lifetime?

Posted on January 16, 2010 by

One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015, with hunger measured as the proportion of the population who are undernourished … Continue reading →

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World Food Programme and Millennium Villages launch a partnership

Posted on September 28, 2009 by

I feel somewhat obliged to blog on this being that I was behind the scenes working with Professor Sachs and our WFP colleagues to make this happen. Let’s hope the partnership is a success. Here’s to ending hunger! UN News … Continue reading →

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Snacks and glints – hunger is peaking

Posted on September 22, 2009 by

NY Times article, so much food, so much hunger. Despite the late Norman Borlaug’s accomplishments, “more people are hungry today than ever and that total should exceed one billion people this year for the first time, according to the United … Continue reading →

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