World has means to end hunger, experts say
June 25, 2009
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June 24, 2009
A mother in Haiti walks away from her home, crying and praying for God to send her something she can feed her five starving children.
"She prays for manna, send manna, and manna never comes," said Dr. Lisette DiManche, a doctor at the Clinic of Communite of Christian Church in City-Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In her work at the clinic, next to a school, she sees the daily effects of malnutrition and poverty.
DiManche sees many hungry, desperate mothers who are helpless to feed their children. Such a mother "will go out everyday praying like this and leaving her children alone."
This clinic receives aid from Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger organization. City-Soleil is a slum in Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, where children eat "mud cookies" to stave off hunger pangs.
Meanwhile, advocates working to end hunger contend that the world produces enough to feed everyone between 2,700 and 3,000 calories a day.
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