Josette Sheeran quotes
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“One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.”
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“Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.”
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“If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.”
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“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.”
-- Josette SheeranSource : "Filling Empty Bellies Is No Longer Enough". Department for International Development blog, dfid.blog.gov.uk. September 20, 2011.
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“Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.”
-- Josette SheeranSource : "Interview with Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme". UN News Centre interview, www.un.org. September 20, 2010.
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“Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.”
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“Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.”
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“There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.”
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“Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.”
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“This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.”
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“With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.”
-- Josette SheeranSource : "The Challenge of Hunger". The Lancet Article, www.thelancet.com. January 17, 2008.
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