Feature: Ending World Hunger
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Interview: Christa Räder, World Food Programme Country Director for Sierra Leone— More resources are needed to increase the number of children who receive a daily meal and acquire basic education in Sierra Leone.
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Catholic Relief Services - Helping Children Since World War II
— School meals provided by Catholic Relief Services benefited many Bosnian children by improving their nutrition, class attendance and education.
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Interview with Olga Keita, World Food Programme Deputy Country Director for Burkina Faso
— Because of poverty, only 48% of children in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso go to school, and the situation is even worse for girls.
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Interview with Carla Honwana of the World Food Programme in Mozambique
— Rising food prices are projected to have a negative impact on school attendance rates and quality of education in Mozambique.
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Interview: Nicolas Babu, School Feeding Program Officer for WFP Madagascar— School feeding acts as an incentive to persuade parents to enroll and keep their children in school.
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Interview with GianCarlo Cirri, World Food Programme Country Director for Mauritania
— Approximately 40,000 children were affected by the closure of school canteens in 242 schools in 2007/2008.
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Interview: GianPietro Bordignon, Country Director for the World Food Programme in Egypt
— Hunger and poverty have severe implications for poor families and how they choose to use their available resources.
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Interview with Wilfred Banmbuh, World Food Programme Country Director for the Republic of Congo
— WFP’s goal is for every child in Congo to attend school. Hunger should not be the reason a child is denied an education.
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Interview with Sara Moussavi, World Food Programme Officer for School Feeding In Sudan
— WFP hopes to see a national school feeding program materialize that will offer school meals to all children in Sudan.
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Interview with Richard Dalrymple, World Food Programme Country Director for Algeria
— Some of the world's greatest thinkers, including Albert Einstein, were refugees. All children deserve the opportunity to demonstrate their potential and worth.
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UN World Food Programme’s School Feeding Initiative in São Tomé and Príncipe
— School feeding is an important way to save children at risk of abuse, oppression, and a life of illiteracy, crime and homelessness.
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Interview: Emily Doe, UN World Food Programme Officer, Democratic Republic of the Congo
— Parents depend heavily on school feeding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to provide daily meals for their children.
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Interview: Jacques Roy, Director of the UN World Food Programme, Benin
— For the cost of an evening at the movies, you can feed one child for an entire year.
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Humanitarian Crisis Emerging from Fighting between Russia and Georgia — The number of people in need of help in Georgia is rising by the hour.
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Interview: Carlo Scaramella, World Food Programme Country Director, El Salvador— School feeding programs have increased school attendance and improved nutrition.
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Interview: Gon Myers, United Nations World Food Programme, Chad
— The WFP School Feeding Program keeps kids in school and reduces their chance of getting enlisted into the armies.
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Interview with Hakan Tongul, UN World Food Programme Assistant Country Director for Myanmar
— A 22 pound ration of rice can be all a family needs to make it possible for its children to attend school.
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Interview: Wagdi Othman, Deputy Country Director of the UN World Food Programme, Cote d'Ivoire
— The Integrated and Sustainable School Cafeterias Program is a community-based model, which can be used in other African countries.
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Interview: Liliane Bigayimpunzi, UN World Food Programme Director of School Feeding in Burundi
— Most of the families targeted by the School Feeding Program belong to a group of extremely food-insecure people.
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Interview: Sitta Kai-Kai, UN World Food Programme, Central African Republic
— School feeding reassures people in the conflict-affected and displaced communities, and promotes a return to normalcy.
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Interview: Haladou Salha, United Nations World Food Programme, Cameroon
— The development, political stability, peace, health, and security of any nation is closely linked to education and school feeding.
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Interview: Leo van der Velden, United Nations World Food Programme, Bhutan
— An investment in school feeding is an investment in the future.
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Interview: Napo Ntlou, United Nations World Food Programme, Lesotho
— Napo Ntlou of the United Nations World Food Programme discusses the importance of school feeding programs in Lesotho.
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Interview: Zahir Islam, Director of the UN World Food Programme’s School Feeding, Bangladesh
— School feeding programs are critical to Bangladesh and its quest to end hunger and poverty.
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Interview: Angela Van Rynbach, World Food Programme Country Director for Indonesia
— Indonesia is a country recovering from numerous disasters, including the tsunami of 2004. School feeding programs are a key part of the rebuilding process.
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Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan Among WFP's "Hunger Hotspots"
— Hunger is attacking Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, and many other countries around the globe.
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Interview: Sandra Schlossar - Hilfswerk Austria, Humanitarian Aid to Eastern Europe
— A charity helping provide school meals to children and bolstering their education.
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Interview: Richard Ragan, United Nations World Food Programme Country Director for Nepal
— School feeding programs to fight child hunger in Nepal.
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Interview: Rick Corsino, UN World Food Programme Director in Afghanistan
— Food and education for children are crucial elements for Afghanistan to become a peaceful and prosperous democracy.
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New PSA Highlights Charity Fighting Poverty in Kenya
— A new public service announcement focuses on the work of a charity fighting poverty in Kenya in the face of violence.
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Short Film Calls for Global School Lunch Program to Fight Child Hunger
— A new short film is a call to action to end the hunger that afflicts 300 million children worldwide.
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