Although I am not personally a religious man and prefer to look at hunger as a practical secular problem, religious people and institutions have worked diligently in the cause to end hunger. A powerful TV documentary presented by the National Council of Churches USA (NCC), “Hunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts,” takes an unflinching […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Jeffery Sachs on The Colbert Report
In a recent video added to YouTube, Stephen Colbert talks to professor Jeffrey Sachs about his book “The End of Poverty“, or why eradicating poverty might be more effective in fighting terrorism than the military. (The Colbert Report, March 2, 2006) See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUdc7atFiHg With a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Jeffery Sachs is […]
The Inherent Link Between War and Hunger
by Scott Hughes Sure, those who want to end world hunger also happen to often want to end war. Sure, sympathetic activists sympathize with both causes – the fight against hunger and the fight for peace. However, the reason war and hunger are linked is not just that these two movements happen to be motivated […]
Peace.org
I’d like to take this time to point out that there will never be peace without freedom & justice for all. Freedom and justice are prerequisites of peace. There will never be peace so long as innocent children starve, so long as hard working people are poor, and so long as people are judged, not […]
Why Be A Volunteer?
by Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed Why Be A Volunteer? What is in it for me, to volunteer my time and energy? Volunteering allows me to be part of a group of respected, well meaning people who serve others. In my volunteer work, I find like minded people who share my vision to be part of […]
Afghanistan Starvation
by Lance Winslow There appears to be many people in Afghanistan that were starving and it is said that over 3.5 million Afghans face a severe and critical food shortage. Now some might say this is because they are busy planting poppies instead of planting crops and indeed that is true. However, the fact that […]