After
meeting with Missions to the United Nations this morning, the HungerFREE team protested loudly in front of the UN, shouting: “UN: Put Food on the Table! The Poor must not be Ignored!” The action attracted passers-by from around the world, who stopped by to sign their personal messages on HungerFREE plates destined to be presented to UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon.
The press came, too, including BBC Afrique, which conducted an informative interview with Mr. Ibrahima Niasse. Mr. Niasse came all 
the way from Senegal for the HungerFREE campaign. In his native country, he serves as the Head of The Farmers’ Platform, which stands up for the rights of small family farmers (that’s him to the right). “We are at a place in history where there should absolutely be no hunger,” he told me. “That’s why I’m here. Lives are on the line. The United Nations must take action.”
1 Comment
November 14, 2007 at 1:20 am
Its very sad seeing the people around the world hungry when the whole world is talking about fastest economic growth and technological development. How this technology helping to curb hunger. Are we not growing only in terms of luxary and polarizing the gaps between rich and poor. The whole world is running after what kind of growth when some of the families still live on eating a Rat. Its disgusting. I fear this kind of growth, we are in a process of discovering or inventing something very dangerous