Feature: Ending World Hunger

Author William Lambers reports on the struggle to fight hunger all over the world. Through interviews with program officials and occasional opinion pieces, he illuminates the importance of school lunch programs and other efforts by NGOs and national governments.

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• Interview with Camilo Guerrero González, Fundación Pies Descalzos (Barefoot Foundation)

  For many children, the meal they receive at school is the only they have during the day.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Mar 13, 2009

• Interview: Zelleke Shibeshi, Emergency Program Coordinator, Catholic Relief Services, Southern Sudan

  The primary focus of CRS Sudan’s school feeding program is to ensure that schoolchildren have access to food.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Mar 10, 2009

• Interview: Jakob Mikkelsen of the UN World Food Programme in Ethiopia

  Supporting school feeding programs helps children get an education in a healthy and child-friendly school environment.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Mar 01, 2009

• Interview: Giorgia Testolin, Country Director of the World Food Programme - Djibouti

  The school feeding program and take-home rations have been crucial in increasing school attendance for girls in rural areas.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Feb 28, 2009

• Interview: Jaime Vallaure of the UN World Food Programme in Honduras

  School meals may be the only nutritious meal offered to school children in Honduras.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Feb 19, 2009

• Interview: Laura Sheahen of Catholic Relief Services on Sister Maria Tolledo's Efforts to Fight Child Hunger in Moldova

  Many of the children are from very poor families, so food is definitely an incentive for the kids to come to Sister Maria's.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Feb 17, 2009

• Interview: Abdou Dieng of the World Food Programme in Guinea

  WFP’s school feeding network has been used as a channel to reach vulnerable children and their families.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Feb 16, 2009

• Interview: Patricia Kicak of ChildsLife International

  The global economic crisis is making it hard for ChildsLife to pay for the the school meals it provides.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Feb 12, 2009

• Interview: Hani El-Mahdi, Catholic Relief Services, Sudan

  CRS has been building permanent kitchens and food storage rooms to enable schools in West Darfur.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Feb 06, 2009

• Interview: Lara Evans, Global Food Program Officer of World Vision, on Afghanistan

  Low funding forces many McGovern-Dole applications to be denied even though successes see an increase in the number of children attending school.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Jan 30, 2009

• Interview: David Parra, World Food Programme Officer, Colombia

  Children are the hardest hit by the conflict and poverty in the country.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Jan 29, 2009

• Interview: Sarah Klonski, West Bank Coordinator, World Food Programme

  Food for education is food for peace in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Jan 16, 2009

• Interview: Ismail Omer of the United Nations World Food Programme in Ghana

  School meals are generally credited with increasing school enrolment, attendance, and retention rates.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Jan 13, 2009

• Interview: Domingos Afonso Ndedica, World Food Programme, Angola

  The Government of Angola is now budgeting for a countrywide school feeding program.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Jan 06, 2009

• School Lunches for Peace in Iraq

  There has been no systematic school feeding in Iraq since the WFP suspended their programme in September 2006.

  News by William Lambers — on Dec 22, 2008

• Obama Needs a Global Hunger Advisor on Foreign Policy Team

  A U.S. hunger czar could work on Food for Peace initiatives around the world.

  Opinion by William Lambers — on Dec 18, 2008

• Food for Education Program Fights Hunger and Poverty in Pakistan

  Education, even in limited forms, provides the key for the poorest individuals to break out of the poverty cycle.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Dec 15, 2008

• Interview: Salman Omer of the World Food Programme in Yemen

  In some countries, students attend school solely because there is a food incentive.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Dec 13, 2008

• Interview: Purnima Kashyap of the World Food Programme in Zambia

  Soaring food prices have directly affected the school feeding programme in Zambia.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Dec 01, 2008

• Interview: Sheila Grudem, Deputy Country Director of the World Food Programme in Tanzania

  This "silent hunger", which often goes unnoticed, is the reason the Food For Education program was initiated.

  Interview by William Lambers — on Nov 15, 2008