9.
Organizations Helping to End Hunger
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"How
unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting
plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger
and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers,
let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood
garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs
working to put an end to this cruel and needless
blight once and for all."
-- Bonnie Raitt
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There
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
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
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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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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
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
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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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6)
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