The miracle of life in Minhaj Gedi Farah

Many of the miracles come through word, others come through actions "divine", others are not and never get to meet others come from the hand of man as humanitarian aid oddly enough these days to live.And this time the miracle has occurred in a refugee camp in Dabaad, the...

US Food Aid as a money-maker for the corporate few?

peter.reardon from a personal perspective working with CARE-US : World , culture, Opinion:- CARE-USA's quantum shift in management philosophy with regard to "feeding the poor" in need of humanitarian aid is hopefully only a short term improvement of supplying...

Food insecurity robs good outcome of quality HIV care

If people living with HIV (PLHIV) are food insecure, then we alarmingly lose the desired good outcomes of quality HIV treatment and care. This was powerfully articulated and backed by evidence in the session of Dr Christine Wanke, Director, Division of Nutrition and...

Khartoum Under Fire Over IDP Camp Conditions

ICC prosecutors say situation is further evidence of an ongoing genocide campaign in Darfur. By Tajeldin Abdhalla, Assadig Mustafa, Katy Glassborrow, Simon Jennings - International...

Half Nepal's Children Under Five Stunted by Hunger: Report

Half of Nepalese children under the age of five years old suffer from stunted growth as a result of a chronic lack of food, the government and the United Nations said in a report released yesterday.  A decade of political unrest and a civil war also left more than a...

The enemy: Uneducated, impoverished, unemployed teens

I wrote about the demographic of fundamentalist Islamic terrorists who comprise al Shahab: teenagers and slightly more. They are ripe for recruitment by al Qaeda and Taliban. Their government and their local...

Exclusive breastfeeding can save 22.3% infant deaths

1-7 August 2010: World Breastfeeding Week (CNS): Statistics state that 270,000 infants born in Uttar Pradesh (UP) die in the first month of their birth and every sixth malnutrition child lives in UP. "The grim situation of infant mortality and child malnutrition can be...

Should Europeans pay compensation to Africans?

The Europeans went to Africa only with their machine gun and their positive contribution to the nations they colonized is, almost, nothing or very little. Currently, the Chinese are going to Africa with their money...

65th Anniversary of Food Drop in Holland

Today, April 29th, 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the test flight of Bad Penny, a Lancaster bomber flown by Bob Upcott of Windsor, Ontario into war-torn western Holland. Upcott's mission was to be the first to...

Why the Obese are Hungry: The Chemical Maze of Cheap Fast Foods

According to Sam Dolnick in an article in the NY Times, the link between hunger and obesity has to do with the scarcity of healthy options in low-income areas, driving those who cannot afford to spend more on...

"LIFE SHARING"

MANILA, PHILIPPINES Passing along the streets seemed so devastating whenever I see children begging for food and cents to simply alleviate their whole day hunger..The United Nations has been helping out poor children, sending aid whenever there are calamities in every...

Haiti's Prime Minister Declares a State of Emergency

Port au Prince airport is busy as never before.  An airport that normally receives three aircraft per day, now receives as many as 500 flights a day.  While aid is pouring in at an unprecedented rate,...

More than 1 Billion Hungry people in the world: UN

Food Crisis is deepening, more that one billion people go to bed, sorry  they don't have even bed, with hungry stomach. The trade negotiations on agriculture, are focused on economic aspect of making profit....

Eva Amurri Follows Her Mother's Stiptease Footsteps

Eva Amurri, daughter of Susan Sarandon, has followed her mother's footsteps in being a stripper on film. Susan had done a film called The Hunger, where she does a lesbian love scene with Catherine Deneuve. In the...

Father Of The Green Revolution Norman Borlaug Dies At 95

Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revoluion, has passed away at his home in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 95. Borlaug died from complications of cancer. He was one of only five people who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the...

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