Topic: Hunger
AP News | 2010-02-26 21:26:54
In Niger, opening once-taboo topic of hunger crucial to easing impending food crisis
They are simple words humanitarian workers in Africa use often but dared not speak in this impoverished nation: hunger, starvation. And definitely not famine. For years, President Mamadou Tandja denied there was any food crisis in Niger, even when images were broadcast of skeletal children too weak ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-02 17:42:31
<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of Americans receiving emergency food from the largest U.S. hunger-relief charity and its partners rose 46 percent from 2005 to 2009, according to a report released on Tuesday.</p><p>"Feeding America" said 37 million people, including 14 million children, needed emergency food aid each ...
Reuters US Online Report Domestic News | 2010-01-22 22:17:27
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. child nutrition programs need at least $1 billion a year in new funding as a step toward elimination of childhood hunger by 2015, an anti-hunger coalition said on Friday.</p><p>Congress delayed a renewal of the nutrition programs until this year because it could not ...
AP News | 2010-01-14 22:21:02
<div id="subtitle">Yum Brands gives $500,000 to provide food for victims in Haiti</div><div><p>Yum Brands, operator of KFC, Taco Bell and other major restaurant chains, on Thursday said it is directing $500,000 from its program World Hunger Relief to provide food for earthquake victims in Haiti ...
