The actress, 32, has been named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations' World Food Programme, and she'll work as an advocate for school feeding programs in developing countries.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The Pope Denounces Capitalism and Marxism
In a major speech on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI condemned capitalism and Marxism as “systems that marginalize God” and urged the Latin American clergy to feed people’s spiritual hunger as the way to ease poverty and halt the Roman Catholic Church’s steady decline in the region.
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The Faces of Hunger and Hope
The Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (FAMA) and The Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB) will join domestic hunger-relief organizations and hundreds of communities across the nation in recognizing Hunger Awareness Day. A special city-wide interfaith convocation titled, The Faces of Hunger and Hope will be held on Tuesday, June 5, 7 p.m. at the Atl
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Rachael Ray Fights Childhood Hunger
Celebrity chef Rachael Ray is cooking for a cause. She is urging everyone to participate in Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale, which benefits hungry children. She is also tackling childhood hunger through her new foundation Yum-o! The foundation focuses on feeding hungry kids and teaching families how to make affordable, healthy meals s
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Hunger
This story is not very long but has a great twist to it im not going to explain it to you because that will wreck it :p
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Child Hunger Undermining Central American Poverty Drive
Child undernutrition in Central America cost $6.7 billion a year, or over 6 percent of the region’s entire gross domestic product – a burden that severely undermines international and national efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty, says a new UN report.
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It Would Be Cheaper To End World Hunger Than Not To
If the world put just $6 billion more per year towards ending hunger, than we would have more than enough to end hunger. Leaving world hunger costs the world much more than $7 billion per year in terms of economic damage. In fact, the damage of childhood hunger costs Central America alone $7 billion in economic damage.
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Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Hunger is one of the determinants of poverty in Africa. Hunger leads to poor health, high mortality rate, low productivity and extreme societal distability.I highly believe that if only we could work on food security in Africa, we could be way up above halfing the world poverty level. Business could go a long way towards assisting this.
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Hundreds Fill MA State House to Oppose Verizon’s Special Interest Bill
Local officials, local-access programmers and consumers filled Gardner Auditorium to standing-room-only Tuesday, in a successful effort to make it clear that Massachusetts should not allow the telecommunications giant Verizon to rewrite cable television regulations in the state to meet its hunger for profits.
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Fred Meyer holds food drive
Fred Meyer stores throughout Pierce County are teaming up with Food Lifeline's local distribution center, the Resource Distribution Council (RDC), for a food drive through June 19. Signs and barrels for non-perishable food items will be posted in every Fred Meyer store.The food drive began on National Hunger Awareness Day, June 5, right i
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Bono's anti-poverty campaign invests $30 Million to pressure '08 candidates
Dubbed ONE Vote '08, the bipartisan political push aims to get President Bush's successor to commit to taking concrete steps in the first 100 days to combat hunger and disease while improving access to education and water across the globe.
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Biofuels could lead to mass hunger deaths: U.N. envoy
Diverting sugar and maize for biofuels could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths from hunger worldwide, the United Nations’ food envoy warned on Thursday.
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Africa's greatest need
John says "I often get asked why, when working in a continent like Africa, with all its seemingly endemic problems of poverty, corruption and tribalism, we don't do something more 'useful' than focus on the good news of the Gospel?"
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