Ask Congress to Help Cut Hunger in Half As the global economic crisis intensifies, the world's most vulnerable people are finding it more difficult to feed themselves and their families. Chronic malnutrition traps people in a cycle of hunger and poverty. It also erases up to $30 billion per year in producitivity from the global economy. You can help. Ask Congress to and invest in a healthy and productive future for everyone. Tell them to support a federal budget that funds a comprehensive effort to fight hunger and poverty around the world.
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WHEREAS President Obama recently released a budget outline that provides $53.9 billion for international affairs, the section of the budget that funds foreign assistance and many global poverty reduction programs;
WHEREAS the White House has stated its commitment to increase foreign assistance funding in order to continue successful programs and embark on new initiatives that will foster global food security; RECOGNIZING that one billion people around go to bed hungry at night and another two billion fail to receive adequate nutrition even though the world produces enough food to feed every man, woman and child; WE URGE you to affirm U.S. leadership in the fight against global hunger in order to meet the UN Millennium Development Goal to cut hunger in half by 2015; WE URGE you to support the Administration’s budget proposal and adequately fund comprehensive strategy to reduce hunger and poverty around the world; WE URGE you to revive the Congressional Select Committee on Hunger to examine issues relevant to the development, implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive strategy on global hunger. |