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Norwegian Refugee Council providing aid in East Africa
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is taking action against the massive hunger crisis facing East Africa. Famine has been declared in parts of Somalia and severe drought has struck Kenya, Ethiopia and...
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Giving Children a Chance in Post-Conflict Ivory Coast
Ten-month-old Sara has been found to be malnourished, and will receive treatment with plumpy'nut to make her strong and healthy again. Even before the conflict, already one in three children under five...
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Food for Peace and the UN World Food Program
Food for Peace is the primary tool by which the United States fights global hunger.See below President Dwight Eisenhower proclaiming the Food for Peace program (originally titled Public Law 480 in...
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Senate Urged to Support Food for Peace Program
This week the Senate will be considering how much funding to give to the Food for Peace program, our main tool in the fight against global hunger. It’s vital the Senate give full support to Food for...
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Saints QB Brees teams with World Food Programme on famine relief
Tonight the NFL season kicks off with the last two Super Bowl champions facing off – the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints. Green Bay is fresh off its victory over the 6-time Super Bowl...
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Food for Peace, CRS Working to Feed the Hungry in East Africa
President Reagan called the U.S. Food for Peace program an “instrument of American compassion.” This government program has a tradition of feeding the world’s hungry. It saves lives. It represents the...
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Take Action To Save Hunger Fighting Programs from Budget Cuts
Yesterday, I spoke to a great class at the College of Mount St. Joseph about the fight against hunger, both at home and abroad. We talked about proposed budget cuts in the Congress to food aid...
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Famine in Somalia. Is the Wolf at the Door in Afghanistan?
WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga at the mini-summit on the Horn of Africa in New York on September 24. (Copyright: WFP/Dena Gudaitis) Aid agencies are...
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In Search of Peace in South Sudan
Father Joseph Otto of Magwi, South Sudan holds mass every day, even if no one attends. If only all of South Sudan, or everywhere for that matter, could hear him when he reads “Blessed are the...
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Rwanda’s dream of a music school
The author Kahlil Gibran once wrote, “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” In the African nation of Rwanda, the spirit of peace is so...
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