Act Now and Avoid Summer Disaster of Hunger and Famine
Last summer the world was stunned by the famine in East Africa, with thousands of children starving to death on the trek from Somalia to refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. We can prevent a similar...
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School Feeding Vital to Ethiopia As Drought Revisits Region
Lack of rainfall is placing Ethiopia at risk of a severe hunger crisis in the coming months. This development comes on the heels of last year’s massive drought in East Africa. Map from the U.S. Famine...
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Famine in Niger: Silent Guest Donations Needed to Feed Starving Children
Iris Gabriel, who once aspired to be an actress, played her most important role as a humanitarian. She proposed an idea to Massachusetts Governor Robert Bradford for Thanksgiving of 1947. Why not ask...
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Mauritania: School Meals, Refugee Aid Lack Funding
As the hunger crisis deepens in eight countries of the Sahel region of Africa, humanitarian aid should be increasing. This is not the case, thoug,h in parts of the drought-stricken area. In Mauritania...
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President Obama to Make Speech About Global Hunger Crisis
With hunger emergencies ongoing in the Sahel region of Africa, as well as Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries, President Barack Obama faces one of his most daunting foreign policy...
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This Day in History in the Fight Against Global Hunger
Winston Churchill once said, “The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.” As President Obama is set to make a speech about today’s global hunger crisis, it helps to look back on...
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This Memorial Day You Can Save a Life In Famine-Threatened West Africa
This Memorial Day is a time to remember lost loved ones. It’s also a time when people can rally to save the lives of millions of people threatened by starvation in the Sahel region of Africa. A severe...
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UN, Save the Children Start Famine Relief Funds for West Africa
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian agency, has started a relief fund for the famine-threatened Sahel region of West Africa. Unless humanitarian aid is...
View ArticleBook Review: The Burn Zone by James K. Decker
In James K. Decker’s The Burn Zone, our planet–or at least one that fictionally resembles the hell out of it–was headed for ecological disaster until an alien race (the Haan) helped stop the end from...
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The Boston Marathon Winner Who Fed the Hungry
The suspense is building for the Boston Marathon, which comes next Monday. Who will take the prize this year? While we wait for the big race it’s worth remembering the 1946 winner, Stylianos Kyriakides...
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