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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Cyberdigma
The Hunger Project is een internationale strategische en visiegeorienteerde organisatie die, naast een beperkt aantal betaalde krachten, hoofdzakelijk bestaat uit vrijwilligers.
The Hunger Project ziet mensen met honger niet als slachtoffers, maar als volwaardige individuen die in principe uitstekend in staat zijn hun eigen honger te beëindigen.
The Hunger Project geeft dat geld niet weg.
www.cyberdigma.nl /default.asp?action=pagina&pagina=1249   (247 words)

  
  The Hunger Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The instant you create a context-the end of hunger and starvation on the planet-then deaths resulting from starvation occur in that context, and suddenly the same deaths that had been a manifestation of the persistence of the problem become a manifestation of, virtually a contribution to, the end of the problem.
The Hunger Project is a natural consequence of the experience of individual and personal responsibility, of your Self's experience that hunger and starvation exist in your space, in your world.
It becomes your project and anyone working to eliminate hunger and starvation around the world will be working for you because you have taken the responsibility to create the context of the end of hunger and starvation on the planet.
www.soberworld.com /thp.htm   (9046 words)

  
 Cult News.com: The Hunger Project attempts to purge criticism and history from the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The Hunger Project (THP), describes itself as "a strategic organization and global movement committed to the sustainable end of world hunger." But it seems the group has added some interesting new strategies to its list of commitments lately.
Their first target was former THP volunteer Carol Giambalvo who had written a critique of the group in 1987 titled "The Hunger Project Inside Out" and posted it on her website.
The second news summary was replaced with this report titled "The Hunger Project attempts to purge criticism and history from the Internet." And any pertinent quotations by David Hoekema contained in the news summary it replaced, were transferred to "The Hunger Project: A Historical Background" and duly noted.
www.cultnews.com /archives/000748.html   (1403 words)

  
 “LEADERSHIP TO END WORLD HUNGER”
The devotion of The Hunger Project to ending world hunger and your recognition, through the establishment of the Africa Prize, that effective leadership and dedication are needed to improve the well-being of the African people strengthens and reinforces our determination to continue advocating gender equality and the systematic enhancement of women’s access to leadership opportunities.
Ending hunger and improving the quality of life of women are inextricably linked, and leadership to end world hunger represents commitment to improving the quality of life of people who are poor and are more likely to be women.
I am convinced that the effective leadership to end hunger which is gaining momentum throughout Africa and rest of the World will demonstrate the commitment and dedication of governments and of organizations such as The Hunger Project, in meeting the needs and aspirations of all people for a better quality of life.
www.theperspective.org /speeches/1026200602.html   (2273 words)

  
 Hunger Project Policy Brief
Hunger persists because hungry people – primarily women – lack the opportunity, or have been systematically denied the opportunity to meet their basic needs.
In recognizing all this, the Hunger Task Force needs to help the world understand that women are not weak and vulnerable, but the key change agents for the end of hunger.
Given that the African woman is the most important actor for the end of hunger as producer, decision maker and key to the health of the people, we recommend that the Task Force report give greater focus to specific strategies for her empowerment.
www.hungerproject.org /paradigm.htm   (2970 words)

  
 The Hunger Project
The Hunger Project is able to work strategically, and pioneer strategies based on empowering people to be authors of their own development because our investor body understands this way of thinking, and is bold enough, trusting enough and committed enough to fund this strategy.
Hunger Project leadership must always be unyielding on gender issues, in the face of enormous non-agreement.
The Hunger Project asks people to act inconsistently with their upbringing and inherited belief systems to transform the very culture in which they live, in order to end the persistence of hunger and abject poverty.
www.thp.org /reports/jh/jhbd407.htm   (3739 words)

  
 The Hunger Project-Bangladesh
This report represents the overall achievements of The Hunger Project’s initiatives to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh, from April 2005 to September 2005.
The Hunger Project is the largest volunteer organization in Bangladesh, having now trained more than 60,000 Bangladeshi women and men representing all 64 districts in the country, as animators.
The Hunger Project is one of the key partners of Shujan, given its commitment to build good governance in Bangladesh.
www.thpbd.org /reports/2005/23oct/index.html   (2053 words)

  
 The Hunger Project (Canada)
The Hunger Project is a strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger — the opportunity for all people to lead healthy and productive lives in harmony with nature.
The Hunger Project (Canada) works in coordinated action with chapters of The Hunger Project [www.thp.org
Canadian citizens have invested as stakeholders in the work of The Hunger Project since it's inception 30 years ago.
thehungerproject.ca   (103 words)

  
 InterAction.org | Members
The Hunger Project is a strategic organization and global movement committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.
In Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, The Hunger Project is applying the methodologies it has developed around the world to empower grassroots people to end their own hunger, and to contribute these approaches to the larger movement of organizations and agencies working in Latin America.
Hunger Project investors are stakeholders in the end of hunger, expressing their solidarity and partnership with the hungry people who are on the front lines of ending hunger.
www.interaction.org /members/hungerproject   (506 words)

  
 AEGiS-NV: NGO Hails Museveni
The Hunger Project has hailed President Yoweri Museveni for his continous campaign on food security and the fight against HIV/AIDS in Uganda.
Hunger project is a global organisation committed to end hunger.
The Hunger Project Uganda director, Jeanne Gasasira, yesterday said Museveni was among the 20 people awarded the Africa Prize for leadership for the sustainable end of hunger.
www.aegis.com /news/nv/2001/NV010907.html   (309 words)

  
 The Hunger Project: A Historical Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
According to an early publication by The Hunger Project (THP), which has since been withdrawn from circulation, it was "formally" launched "at the February 1977 meeting of the est Advisory Board." And "the est Foundation took responsibility for the role of bringing the project into existence."
THP describes itself as "a strategic organization and global movement committed to the sustainable end of world hunger" and largely depends upon its "40,000" volunteers.
THP says it is presenting "a new paradigm - a paradigm consistent with the end of hunger.
www.rickross.com /reference/hunger_project/hunger_project1.html   (2097 words)

  
 XING - Groups - Groups - The Hunger Project - About this group
The Hunger Project is a global NGO (non government organisation) that promotes social mobilisation and gender equality as part of a strategic plan to end world hunger.
The Hunger Project does not provide “relief.” Rather, The Hunger Projects works in authentic partnership with the people of developing countries to address the root causes of hunger and to ensure that all people have the chance to lead healthy and productive lives.
In addition to directly empowering hungry people, The Hunger Project works strategically to change policies, catalyze society-wide transformation of the conditions holding hunger in place, and strengthen the local democratic structures through which people can meet their basic needs on a sustainable basis.
www.xing.com /net/hungerproject   (207 words)

  
 Creative Action
Preschool and school-aged children who experience severe hunger have higher levels of chronic illness, anxiety and depression, and behavior problems than children with no hunger, according to a recent study.
It is estimated that 1 billion people in the world suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
Hunger affects poor people everywhere in the world who do not have land or money to provide for an adequate diet.
www.creativeaction.org /Facts/hunger.htm   (1024 words)

  
 Latent Recordings
A few more cover songs to the neath your covers, part 2 section; more music from Jeff Bird; more music from Pete's favourite Toronto rockers The Corndogs; make sure to check out all of the new Exclusive sections.
The first release on Latent was a 33 1/3 single (The Same Inside / Assembly) by Hunger Project.
Hunger Project also happened to be Alan and my (Mike) first band.
www.latentrecordings.com /catalogue.php?artist_id=9   (129 words)

  
 Wheels of Fortune 7 - Devotion Over Dollars
The Hunger Project, "a nonprofit, charitable corporation whose work is to generate the will to eliminate the persistence of hunger by the end of the century," was established in 1977 and claims to educate people about the problem of hunger.
Giambalvo states, "The hidden agenda of The Hunger Project is to transform the world according to the 'principles and abstractions' of Werner Erhard.
The Hunger Project has never denied (and, in fact, has always published on our website) that Werner Erhard was one of its founders and served on our board from 1979 through 1990, after which he severed all ties with the organization.
members.tripod.com /~homeo/wheels7.html   (4858 words)

  
 The Hunger Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hunger Project (THP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization incorporated in the state of California.
As famine swept across Africa in 1983-84, The Hunger Project met with Africans across the continent to gain a clearer understanding of the root causes of the crisis, concluding that the famine fundamentally represented a failure of leadership and a failure of policy.
Mother Jones, the The Christian Century, the fifth estate, Carol Giambalvo, Rick Ross, and Jim Provenzano have all received complaints from The Hunger Project for publishing articles that The Hunger Project considered to be false and defamatory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hunger_Project   (2476 words)

  
 CCUCEO: Archives
The Hunger Project is a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of hunger.
The way of approaching the challenge of hunger led us to conclude in 1998 that the remaining challenges - the "final milestone" in ending hunger - consists of solving two problems: severe discrimination against women, and the lack of effective, accountable local democracy through which people can meet their basic needs.
All contributions to The Hunger Project are tax-deductible.
zane.typepad.com /ccuceo/2005/01/the_hunger_proj.html   (1070 words)

  
 Child Foundation - Hunger Relief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Recent studies indicate that 24,000 individuals die each day of hunger-related causes, according to The Hunger Project, a global organization committed to the end of world hunger.
The Hunger Project bases its estimates on conclusions drawn from various studies of under nutrition, malnutrition and mortality.
While there are far fewer studies on hunger and mortality in adults, most experts agree that 3/4 of all hunger-related deaths are children below the age of 5.
www.childfoundation.org /hunger_relief.htm   (297 words)

  
 World Hunger Notes--You Can!...Help Reduce Hunger
Founded in 1970 as a public interest law firm, FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals and agencies across the country.
The Hunger Project is a movement that works to eradicate hunger by fostering global citizenry.
Freedom from Hunger is a nonprofit, nongovernmental, international development organization dedicated to ending chronic hunger and poverty through self-help programs that serve women.
www.worldhunger.org /reduce.htm   (817 words)

  
 Silent Killer Film - The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger
The Project is especially concerned with the empowerment of women as a key part of the fight against hunger.
Stop Hunger Now is a charitable, non-profit international relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid to crisis areas across the globe.
The UN Millennium Project is an independent advisory body commissioned by the UN Secretary-General to advise the UN on strategies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the set of internationally agreed upon targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015.
www.silentkillerfilm.org /partners.html   (710 words)

  
 The Hunger Site - Translations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Famine and wars cause just 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be the ones you hear about most often.
The majority of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition.
It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
www.thehungersite.com /translations/english.html   (248 words)

  
 UN Millennium Project | Take Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
CARE is one of the world's leading humanitarian organizations fighting global poverty through projects in agriculture and natural resources, economic development, education, food, health, water and sanitation, and emergency response.
The Millennium Villages Project is a new global approach to lift developing country villages out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide.
The Earth Institute launched the Millennium Villages project in March 2005 and over the next five years, expects to expand the number of villages in Africa as well as adding villages in other parts of the developing world.
www.unmillenniumproject.org /involved/action03.htm   (926 words)

  
 PROGRAMS: HUNGER PROJECT
The Hunger Project continues to be a great way for Bar/Bat Mitzvah students to fulfill a portion of their Ma'aseh Mitzvah requirements.
The Hunger Project serves families, the elderly, the mentally and physically disabled, hard luck individuals and the poor.
This perpetual award was created by the CBI Board in 2005 to recognize the contribution of Joan Kutner, the director of the CBI San Diego Hunger Project, in recognition of her almost 20 years of service to the San Diego community.
www.cbisd.org /programs/hunger.shtml   (1643 words)

  
 allAfrica.com: Africa: Leadership is the Weapon against African Poverty Says Hunger Project (Page 1 of 1)
In Africa, the Hunger Project argues, the issue is leadership.
We are freedom fighters, and now we are fighting for liberation from hunger and abject poverty." Savirn emotionally described the discrimination against women and reinforced the argument that gender equality is essential in eliminating poverty.
The Hunger Project was founded in 1977 develop strategic interventions and promote broad examinations of global conditions for the work of ending hunger.
allafrica.com /stories/200510240028.html   (632 words)

  
 InterAction.org | Media
In 2003, she received a loan from The Hunger Project — an international NGO based in New York — for $120.
The Hunger Project strategy is different in that it is based primarily on developing local leadership and resources.
When India for the first time mandated that women serve on village councils but provided no support for their success, The Hunger Project invested in these newly-elected women, who are now leaders impacting the lives of more than 12 million people.
www.interaction.org /newswire/detail.php?id=4531   (995 words)

  
 The Hunger Project Australia eNewsletter
Over the next 3 months an exhibition of beautiful and evocative photos taken in Bangladesh by well-known photographer and Hunger Project investor Mike Skelton will be on display in prestigious business locations for a week each in Melbourne (Oct 25-29), Sydney (Nov 15-19) and Perth (Dec 6-10).
This is a unique opportunity for The Hunger Project's programmes to become better known, and to attract new investors at all levels.
On the night you'll have a chance to see the exhibition, to hear from investors about their experience of Bangladesh and to invest in The Hunger Project's work.
www.e-mailmarketing.com.au /thp/current.html   (917 words)

  
 Raúl Juliá Bike Challenge - Biking to end hunger - About The Ride   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The ride was named in honor of Raul Julia, a stage and movie actor, who was passionately committed to ending hunger and the work of The Hunger Project.
Each participant in the Raul Julia Challenge to End Hunger pledges to raise a certain amount for the benefit of The Hunger Project, a global organization committed to the end of hunger.
This year we intend to raise at least $50,000 for The Hunger Project and to spin off support for local organizations through increased corporate participation.
www.op.net /~rjbc   (384 words)

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