Principles for ending hunger

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THE HUNGER PROJECTʼS PRINCIPLES: The Principles FeelGood invests in.

Confronting the Challenge of Ending Hunger •

Hunger persists: Each and every day, 20,000 people die as a consequence of chronic, persistent hunger. The UN reports that 1 billion of our fellow human beings live in extreme poverty – defined as living on less than $1 per day – and 854 million people are chronically hungry. This is not the kind of hunger that makes headlines, as in a famine, but a silent holocaust that continues day after day, month after month.

Hunger can be ended: This waste of human lives is all the more tragic in that it is unnecessary. The world produces more than enough food for everyone and, if we act wisely, can continue to do so for future generations. The world community possesses the financial and technical resources necessary to end hunger.

Hunger is not simply an issue of food: Ending hunger is central to an entire nexus of issues – including family income, health, education, environmental sustainability, human rights and social justice. During the 1990s, advocates for each of these issues came to recognize that only in solving all these issues together can any of them be solved.

The world has committed itself to this goal. At the 2000 Millennium Summit, the leaders of every member of the United Nations declared the intention to cut poverty and hunger in half by 2015 – and to end these conditions altogether within the coming years. This led to the creation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are the worldʼs time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions – income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion – while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability.

The MDGs represent basic human rights – the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter and security as pledged in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Millennium Declaration.

The commitment of The Hunger Project: The Hunger Project is committed to the sustainable end of hunger and extreme poverty. This means that we are committed to empowering people to create permanent, society-wide solutions that achieve the MDGs, and not content ourselves with charitable actions that only benefit a few. We are committed to pioneering the ways of thinking and working through which humanity can end hunger on a sustainable basis, and ensure that these approaches become available to everyone, everywhere.


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