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UN World Food Program Issues Urgent Appeal for Aid


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, United Nations, Food program, economy, shortage, demand, hunger )

Dee
- 89 days ago - cnn.com
(CNN) -- The United Nations' World Food Program appealed Wednesday for $3 billion in donations, blaming the world economic crisis for a surge in demand and a drop in donations.
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Dee C. (526)
Wednesday September 16, 2009, 9:13 pm
" "We now, for the first time in history, have over 1 billion people who are going hungry," spokeswoman Bettina Luescher said.

The program, which is voluntarily funded and receives the bulk of its donations from governments and large organizations, said its level of food aid is at a 20-year low. It said it has received just $2.7 billion of the $6.7 billion it will need to feed 108 million people around the world this year."

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Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (266)
Thursday September 17, 2009, 12:33 am
Definitely is a shortage.. but lets teach the people how to farm and fend for themselves, help with funding of wells and boreholes so this could be a good start... It is not easay to eradicate hunger, but it should start at gras roots
 

Mandi T. (268)
Thursday September 17, 2009, 2:22 pm
People need help to learn farming.
Tx Dee
 

Janet Solomon (249)
Thursday September 17, 2009, 8:25 pm
Thanks so much, Dee.
Namaste & xxxxooo
 

Nikolas Karman (29)
Friday September 18, 2009, 3:50 am
Any support for the UN or its subsidiaries is just a nail in the coffin of democracy and freedom as the UN is just a money making cartel owned by the banksters who set it up. They create the poverty and then want your money to fix the problem and take 90% for themselves while laughing at our stupidity of doing what they tell us.
 

NE L. (52)
Sunday September 20, 2009, 1:24 pm
Isn't this the same organization that misused funds in The Oil for Food Program? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

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