Tonight, more than one billion people around the world will go to bed hungry.
Help cut that number in half.
Right now, America's effort to curb hunger overseas is spread over dozens of federal agencies. There's little coordination and even less accountability for delivering timely and effective aid to the world's most vulnerable.
We can do better.
It starts with Congress passing the Roadmap to End Global Hunger and Promote Food Security Act of 2009, or H.R. 2817. Here's just some of what it will do:
- Establish a White House Office on Global Hunger and Food Security that reports directly to President Obama;
- Require a coordinated strategy to slash global hunger by half no later than 2015, a key UN Millennium Development Goal; and
- Ensure that U.S. policy supports environmentally sound farming practices.
These are all steps endorsed by Mercy Corps and other humanitarian organizations in the "Roadmap to End Global Hunger," a comprehensive set of recommendations we unveiled earlier this year.
More than a billion lives are at stake. Please tell your representative to elevate the issue of global hunger to the highest levels and cut through Capitol Hill's red tape to help slash world hunger in half. Thank you.
Tonight, more than one billion people around the world will go to bed hungry. Help cut that number in half.
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