[New Delhi] is trying to show that greatness can be voted into office, if applied for in triplicate, through the proper channels. |
A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand. |
About a third of the children in Myanmar are chronically malnourished, eight percent are acutely malnourished, and these are very high numbers, |
All of us -- individuals, businesses, non-governmental organizations and governments -- have a deep responsibility to join the campaign to end hunger. |
Amid increasing pressure on us to respond to crises, we urge the international community to remember that we can only provide as much assistance as we ourselves receive ? whether in cash or food. We have to appeal for every cent that we spend on the hungry poor. |
And with forecasters suggesting that the April rains will also be poor, the number of families needing assistance could grow in the coming months. Without adequate emergency food aid, we fear for the worst. |
Clearly, no single organization can solve world hunger, |
Debt relief means very little to a starving child who needs food now |
Emergencies come and go, but we are now in an acute phase of a chronic problem and the effects of this are going to be with us for generations to come. This is not about one issue or one country. Many factors are converging to undermine livelihoods of millions of people in southern Africa. |
Ethiopia, the whole Horn of Africa is a very vulnerable part of the world. |
Food must come first. We cannot put families who have lost their homes and loved ones to violence on a 1,000-calorie-a-day diet. |
For too many ordinary people, political progress must now be matched by substantial humanitarian assistance. |
Having the right number of people and adequate number of people is very important. We hope to work through this in the next few weeks. |
He taught me that that's what you do. If you live there, you take care of the community. |
I simply told him how important it was to respect the rights of every person. I wish the world was perfect. The job of the World Food Program is to see that people don't starve. |