William Lambers is the author of Ending World Hunger. This book features over 50 interviews with officials from the UN World Food Programme and other charities discussing school feeding programs that fight child hunger. He is also the author of Nuclear Weapons, The Road to Peace, Open Skies for Peace, The Spirit of the Marshall Plan: Taking Action Against World Hunger, The Roadmap to End Global Hunger, From War to Peace and Battle of Britain. He is also a writer for the History News Service. His articles have been published by newspapers including the Cincinnati Enquirer, Des Moines Register, San Francisco Chronicle, Buffalo News, San Diego Union Tribune, the Providence Journal, Bakersfield Californian, Miami Herald (FL), Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Times, the Patriot Ledger (MA), Charleston Sunday Gazette Mail (WV), the Cincinnati Post, Salt Lake Tribune (UT), North Adams Transcript (MA), Wichita Eagle (KS), Monterey Herald (CA), Athens Banner-Herald (GA) and the Duluth News Journal. His articles also appear on History News Network (HNN). Mr. Lambers is a graduate of the College of Mount St. Joseph in Ohio with degrees in Liberal Arts (BA) and Organizational Leadership (MS). He is a member of the Feeding America Blogging Council.
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The global economic crisis is making it hard for ChildsLife to pay for the the school meals it provides.
CRS has been building permanent kitchens and food storage rooms to enable schools in West Darfur.
Low funding forces many McGovern-Dole applications to be denied even though successes see an increase in the number of children attending school.
Children are the hardest hit by the conflict and poverty in the country.
Food for education is food for peace in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
School meals are generally credited with increasing school enrolment, attendance, and retention rates.
The Government of Angola is now budgeting for a countrywide school feeding program.
There has been no systematic school feeding in Iraq since the WFP suspended their programme in September 2006.
A U.S. hunger czar could work on Food for Peace initiatives around the world.
Education, even in limited forms, provides the key for the poorest individuals to break out of the poverty cycle.