Greetings:
The cause-advocacy organization Avaaz (
http://www.avaaz.org/en/) may be of interest to some people in the Kiva community. One of their current campaigns is a petition drive towards ending world hunger. The petitions are to be delivered to world leaders before/at the World Summit on Food Security, November 16-18, 2009, Rome, Italy.
If you click on their “End the Hunger Scandal”, you have a chance to sign the petition. You may also want to look at the “Sources” links, which I have copied from their “Tell your Friends/Your Personal Message” (Avaaz’s section is text-only, I hope these copied links are active.)
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Sources
Global Hunger worsening, warns UN:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8306556.stm Only 15% of G8 pledge is new money, Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL3424540 ActionAid's HungerFREE Scorecard Investigates why a Billion People are Hungry:
http://www.hungerfreeplanet.org/what-we-do/world-food-day More information about ActionAid´s HungerFREE global campaign at:
http://www.hungerfreeplanet.org/ World Food Day: There is enough food grown in the world for everyone (Op-ed), Oxfam International:
http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-16/world-food-day About the World Food Summit:
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article1399 ---
(This part of the World situation is only one of the reason I became, and remain a vegan and a Kiva lender.)
Thank you,
Alan (Alanm)
