Josette Sheeran famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.
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Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.
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If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
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If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.
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Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.
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Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.
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Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.
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There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.
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Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
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This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.
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With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.
-- Josette Sheeran
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