The McGovern-Dole school feeding program would be eliminated under President Trump's new budget proposal.
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Are We Any Closer to Ending World Hunger, 15 Years After UN’s Millennium Development Goals?
Although the UN vowed in 2000 to take on this challenge, lofty goals established more than a decade ago have not yet been met, and nonprofit organizations continue to struggle to meet demand.
Read More »Syrian Refugee Children Lose School Food Program
Syrian children attending school in refugee camps in Iraq will be without a feeding program when classes start next week.
Read More »UNICEF Warns of Child Starvation in South Sudan
Food supplies all over the country have been disrupted. There are 3.7 million people in South Sudan suffering from hunger.
Read More »Summer Meals Should Be for All Children
It's a real test of our character as a society: Do we care for the next generation and give it a helping hand?
Read More »Where Are the School Meals?
The struggle to defeat hunger at home and abroad depends on school meals, but sequestration cuts seem to be delaying announcement of this year's aid.
Read More »Aid Groups Need Access to Starving People in Sudan’s South Kordofan State
The World Food Programme and other aid groups need access to all of South Kordofan.
Read More »School Meals Vital to Recovery in Burkina Faso
When food becomes scarce and high-priced as it did in the Sahel last year, food at school becomes a life-changer.
Read More »USAID Official Tells Congress of Syrian Hunger Emergency
Nancy Lindborg of USAID spoke to the House about the growing humanitarian crisis facing war-torn Syria.
Read More »Senator Brown Urges School Meals at Home and Abroad
Sherrod Brown is advocating for school meals abroad as an important piece of U.S. foreign policy
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