“Drought does not need to mean famine,” according to Niger’s president, who adds that the country is tired of needing help and not being able to feed its own people. “We need to escape from emergency aid. We need to help our population produce and provide for itself.” More →

June 29, 2012

“When we’ve had that political will to reduce poverty, we’ve been able to do it in our country, and that’s what we need to mobilize now,” says Reverend David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World. More →

November 23, 2011

“They don’t believe that either change is possible there or that their money, or their resources, what they give, will actually translate into something different on the ground. That’s the crisis that we’re seeing,” says American Refugee Committee president Daniel Wordsworth. More →

November 23, 2011

“The biggest challenge is the sheer volume of people,” says Tony Hall, former US ambassador to the UN World Food Program. Every day an estimated 1,500 malnourished refugees cross the Somalia-Kenya border to escape Somalia’s widening famine. More →

August 12, 2011

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Although the magnitude of the crisis be overwhelming, the Christian relief group World Vision has come up with a creative way to help church youth groups understand the problem of world hunger and what they can do … More →

July 4, 2008