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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 Sheeran

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I believe we're living at a time in human history where it's just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don't know where to find a cup of food.

With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority.

I would like you to join with all of humanity to draw a line in the sand and say, "No more. No more are we going to accept this."

If anything is to be learned from the recent uprisings across the world, it is that the needs of people cannot be ignored.

A silent tsunami which knows no borders is sweeping the world.

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