9.
Organizations Helping to End Hunger
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"Peace
can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and
where individuals and nations are free."
-- 14th
Dalai Lama
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are many little things that all of us can do to help end hunger. But if ending
hunger is your passion for a better world, there are many organizations that you
can help support financially, or become involved with. Following are just a few.
Action Against Hunger has programs in 40 countries to provide food and
water in emergency situations as well as to provide training in food security,
nutrition, healthcare, water and sanitation to help rebuild self-sufficient communities.
www.aah-usa.org
Alliance
to End Hunger includes businesses, civil rights groups, labor unions, religious
bodies and universities devoted to shifting U.S. public opinion, policy and institutions
to end hunger. www.alliancetoendhunger.org
America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest network of food banks
and food rescue organizations serving every county in the United States. www.secondharvest.org
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...just
a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on defense budgets would make a real
difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and
be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.
-- Desmond
Tutu
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Bread for the World is a Christian movement that includes 2,500 churches
that lobby U.S. decision makers on legislation dealing with hunger in America
and around the world. www.Bread.org
End
Hunger Network was started by actor Jeff Bridges to rally the entertainment
industry to support media events and programs that encourage the public to get
involved in helping to end childhood hunger. www.EndHunger.com
Food
For All, a program of the Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger, works with
over 8000 supermarkets in the Point-of-Purchase program, where customers can add
a small donation to hunger organizations to their shopping bill at the checkout
counter. www.foodforall.org
Future Harvest raises awareness and support for international agricultural
research, and enlists notables, such as Jimmy Carter, Hootie & the Blowfish and
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to spread the word as Future Harvest Ambassadors. www.futureharvest.org
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I
can’t think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild
in this world goes hungry.
-- Drew
Barrymore | Harvest
Help helps educate farmers in Africa to become self-reliant. www.harvesthelp.org
Feed The Children is a Christian relief organization that delivers food, clothing
and medicine to families that are hungry due to poverty, war, famine and natural
disasters. www.feedthechildren.org
Oxfam
America provides emergency hunger relief as well as focusing on campaigns
to address changes in global policies and practices that cause hunger to continue
in our world. www.oxfamamerica.org
/ www.oxfam.org World
Hunger Year (WHY), started by folk singer Harry Chapin, works with local organizations
to promote grassroots solutions to ending hunger and connects these organizations
to funders, media and legislators. WHY sponsors the Hungerthon on TV each year
which provides information about hunger and poverty to 6 million viewers. An annual
Awards Dinner also honors grassroots organizations with publicity and a cash grant.
www.worldhungeryear.org
Valuable
Resources
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Every
gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the
final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold
and are not clothed.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower | Feeding
Minds Fighting Hunger: A World Without Hunger is a free curriculum
available on the internet in a dozen different languages that strives to inspire
and empower young people and their teachers to "actively participate in creating
a world free from hunger." www.feedingminds.org
Blueprint
to End Hunger is another free resource to help educate and inspire action. www.alliancetoendhunger.org/
blueprint_to_end_hunger.htm
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