Worldwide Hunger & Starvation News – January 14, 2012
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We are delighted to have introduced this week our new initiative, Messages Of Hope, that will enable you to further participate in our mutual passion and mission of Saving the Starving. We know that everyone can’t make it to our fun and exciting packaging events, and this provides you an opportunity for involvement as well. So take a moment, check it out and let us know what you think.
It’s been two years since the horrendous earthquake struck Haiti. Dr. Jon LaPook, CBS News Medical Correspondent, visited Haiti to see what progress has occurred since that time.
Thirty-five-year-old Gilna Pierre is cooking the only meal of the day for her family and neighbors. It’s 90 degrees and her coal stove on a stone ledge is surrounded by tattered tents in the area called Katalpa, just outside Port-au-Prince. Two years after Haiti’s earthquake, her family is among 500,000 other Haitians still without permanent homes……
Haiti still rebuilding after deadly ’10 quake
From the Wall Street Journal, Solomon Moore provides a discouraging update on the continuing relief efforts in Somalia.
Islamist militants have cut off emergency food delivery for an estimated 240,000 people in the central and southern regions of Somalia, according to relief workers, in an ominous development for one of the largest food-delivery programs in the famine-stricken east African nation…..
Islamic Militants Halt Aid to Famine-Stricken Somalia
The Deccan Herald of India reviews a dire situation for the Odisha area.
If it were not for her older son, who is all of 13 years, Sarasmati Majhi from Bahadulki village of Kashipur block in Odisha’s Rayagada district, would not have been able to keep her family of five children alive. The boy has been taken out of school and now herds cattle in an adjoining village. For this, he gets a kilo of rice and two kilos of millet a month. His mother stretches out this small reserve to feed the family for at least 10 days. For the rest of the time she has to take recourse to “starvation food” like mango kernels, tamarind seeds, mushrooms and the roots and leaves of wild plants…..
Fighting Hunger with Seeds & Roots
David Smith, of Economy Watch, looks at “Food Waste” from an international perspective.
1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted globally every year. While carelessness is the main source of blame for food waste in the developed world, the annual food waste in developing countries often comes down to poor infrastructure development and post-harvest losses…..
Share our Strength offers us 10 Tips that we can use to reduce Food Waste.
The average American family throws out $1,600 worth of food a year. As seen on the Food Network’s special The Big Waste, food past its prime can be turned into a delicious meal. You can save money and help reduce food waste in America with just a few smart shopping and cooking tips from the experts at Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters…..
Top 10 Tips To Waste Less Food
Randi Kreiss, of the LI Herald, comments on how the “99 Percent” also need to take responsibility to act on behalf of the worlds’ starving.
Stories compel. Statistics numb. When I wrote last week about 30,000 children under the age of 5 who died of starvation in drought-ravaged East Africa in 2011, my guess is the number, tragic as it is, did not linger in the mind. So let us turn our attention instead to one story, featured on the front page of The New York Times last week, about the Democratic Republic of Congo, where families follow a policy of “delestage,” which means children eat every other day….
Even the 99 percent have to dig deeper
There are multiple ways that you can take steps in your own community in efforts to help the hungry, starving and food insecure. Cynthia Boyd, of the Minneapolis Post, looks at Marv Dahlgren’s initiative to bring 5000 drummers together for this cause.
It’s not so much about the rhythm as the cause. “We’re trying to raise awareness,” says Dahlgren, well known as principal percussionist for the Minnesota Orchestra for 48 years before his retirement a few years back. “I just sit at the phone every day and call drummers.” At least 5,000 drummers from here, around the United States and from other countries as well will join in…..
Hunger Beat Down: 5000 drummers sound the alarm about starvation
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