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Future of America’s Assistance for Global Health – Roundtable

by WHES July 7, 2025

Hunger Notes joins with other sponsors in convening an expert discussion  on July 17, 2025 about the role of American foreign aid in global health, looking ahead 5+ years.  The Consortium of Universities for Global Health, the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations, the World Hunger Education S...

Wall of Fallen American USAID Staff

by S Hansch and P Morris, WHES May 28, 2025

Until early 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) showcased a memorial wall in the lobby of its Washington, D.C. headquarters, in the Ronald Reagan Building.  The Trump Administration had it torn down and removed on April 30, 2025 in the process of removing USAID both from the...

Roundtable on June 5 about American Foreign Assistance and Faith-Based Organizations

by WHES May 24, 2025

World Hunger Education Service (the nonprofit overseeing this Hunger Notes site), joins with Fordham University, HIAS, Lipscomb University, and George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health in organizing and convening a virtual (online) roundtable of expert...

Book Review: Hot, Hungry Planet

by April 8, 2025

Lisa Palmer's book, Hot, Hungry Planet, The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change, presents seven case studies of individuals working in different continents in the race against hunger, noting that "with a growing population, the demand for rice and other cereals ...

Book Review: We Fed an Island – the True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

by April 8, 2025

The book, “We Fed An Island - One Meal at a Time” by Chef Jose Andres (2018, Harper Collins Publisher) describes how the NGO, World Central Kitchen (WCK), reacted to the 2017 Hurricane Maria after it hit Puerto Rico, knocking out power and destroying homes. Several days after the hurricane, Chef...

Prayer Vigil for Foreign Aid Unites Evangelicals for Aid

by March 13, 2025

A prayer vigil for foreign aid was held March 11, among some 50 Christians, at the Capitol Hill Presbyterian...

America Farm Workers Face Food Insecurity

by February 25, 2025

Investigative article in Grist covers challenges facing farm workers in the US including high food prices and low compensation. https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/farmworker-hunger-crisis-climate-inflation-grocery-costs/ "The people who feed America are going hungry:   Clim...

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Feeding America’s Claire Babineaux-Fonteno Cited by Time Magazine

by https://time.com/7216387/feeding-america-ceo-claire-babineaux-fontenot/ February 21, 2025

The newly released Time Magazine review (Feb. 20, 2025) of "Women of the Year" features Claire Babineaux-Fonteno for her nation-wide advocacy to end hunger.   (https://time.com/7216387/feeding-am...

Questions to Ask about Aid from USAID

by Margie Ferris Morris February 14, 2025

The US Government Agency that Brings Aid - USAID USAID, started in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy.  Estimates are that some 3 billion people in 150 countries have benefited directly from U.S. food assistance      . The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, a part of USAID, identifies fo...

Career, Long-term, Retired USAID Experts Speak about USAID’s Value

by USAID Alumni Association as shared with the USAA network and sent to the Department of State February 13, 2025

February 13, 2025:   The United States Agency for International Development Association's Alumni Association, of retired USAID experts, petitioned new Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also the USAID Administrator, with this letter this week, citing a few of the many USAID-supported projects ...

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  • For the past 50 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
    • Educate the general public and target groups about the extent and causes of hunger and malnutrition in the United States and the world
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    • Promote individual and collective commitments to sustainable hunger solutions.