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...World Food Program (WFP) says 2.5 million people in Niger (pop. 11.7 million) need urgent food aid at least until the next crops can be harvested, in two or three months. But even though the U.S. thought the problem severe enough to airlift tons of high-nutrient food to feed more than 34,000 starving children, experts have yet to upgrade Niger's situation from a food crisis to a famine. The number of people dying there is still small compared with the tolls during the disasters in Ethiopia in 1984-85 and Sudan in the mid-1990s, which claimed...
...months the clergyman has alluded in general terms to an immense volunteer effort called the PEACE plan, aimed at transforming 400,000 churches in 47 nations into centers to nurse, feed and educate the poor and even turn them into entrepreneurs. Its details remain unknown, but its Rwandan element seems to have outrun the rest. Warren says he was "looking for a small country where we could actually work on a national model," and Kagame, impressed by The Purpose-Driven Life, volunteered Rwanda in March. In July Warren and 48 other American Evangelicals, who have backgrounds in areas like health...
...better life in the U.S. from Russia, wouldn't accept it. "They were secular, and when he said he wanted to move to Israel in 1953, my grandmother said, 'You're crazy! They're starving there. They have ration cards! You have a wife and kids to feed. You can't!' He always regretted that." Bryna was determined to fulfill his dream "because he taught me Zionism is not just religious but a state of mind, a way of life, for Jews who believe in Israel...
...hardscrabble land fenced into an uneconomic box by colonial-era borders. So what to do? It's worth pushing on with debt relief, reduced agricultural subsidies and increased aid - and shaming those countries that don't follow through on their promises. It's also incumbent upon us to feed the starving victims of the drought - and figure out a way to get aid to people more quickly. But it's also important to recognize that the path out of poverty will not be found in a single meeting of a rich club or even a dozen of them. Niger represents...
...live T.V. feed projected the chefs’ deft handiwork onto a large screen, while emcee and HUDS general manager David Seley enthusiastically provided play-by-play commentary to a packed dinner-time crowd...