Josette Sheeran Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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.

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#5. 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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#6. Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

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#7. Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

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#8. 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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