Ham Radio Tsunami Update - Tsunami response points the way in fight against hunger

Ham Radio Tsunami Update - Tsunami response points the way in fight against hunger: UN agencies

Ham Radio Tsunami Update - Tsunami response points the way in fight against hunger
Tue Jan 18,12:09 PM ET

ROME (AFP) - Three United Nations agencies urged developed countries to demonstrate the same resolve in dealing with the moral outrage of world hunger as they had shown to the victims of the Asian tsunami.
The Rome-based food agencies said immediate international action was needed if rich nations were to honour a pledge to halve the number of hungry people around the world by 2015.
Jacques Diouf, head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, said that the world's response to the tsunami had set a shining example of how to tackle the hunger crisis.
In no time at all, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars were pledged, he said.
The big lesson from this outpouring of solidarity is that the willingness to assist those less fortunate does exist.
We have long argued that the means to raise the developing world out of poverty are well within the world society's reach. What is lacking is the political will.
One only hopes that this strong message sent by people everywhere will strengthen the political will, and commitment, for investment in longer-term poverty reduction and sustainable development.