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Every 3.6 seconds a person dies of hunger.  75% of them are children.

We ask only for what has been promised.

Target:
President Bush, 100 Senators, and House Leaders

We respectfully ask our government to help stop the tens of thousands of preventable deaths that occur every day from hunger and poverty-related diseases.

Specifically, we ask our country to honor the agreement it made and signed at the 2002 Monterrey Conference and again at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit to make concrete efforts towards giving 0.7% of our national income in aid to poor countries.

The United Nations estimates that when all 22 countries that signed the agreement meet the 0.7% goal, the resulting $195 billion each year will be enough to effectively end hunger and extreme poverty in the world.

We commend the countries that have already reached the 0.7% goal: Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

We also commend the countries that have set up a schedule to meet the 0.7% goal and encourage them in their efforts to reach it as soon as possible: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

We respectfully ask the six remaining countries to honor their agreement and set up a schedule to reach the 0.7% goal: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States.

Thank you.

For more information, or to send a personal letter to a government leader other than President Bush, please visit http://www.freerice.com

We respectfully ask our government to help stop the tens of thousands of preventable deaths that occur every day from hunger and poverty-related diseases.

Specifically, we ask our country to honor the agreement it made and signed at the 2002 Monterrey Conference and again at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit to make concrete efforts towards giving 0.7% of our national income in aid to poor countries.

The United Nations estimates that when all 22 countries that signed the agreement meet the 0.7% goal, the resulting $195 billion each year will be enough to effectively end hunger and extreme poverty in the world.

We commend the countries that have already reached the 0.7% goal: Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

We also commend the countries that have set up a schedule to meet the 0.7% goal and encourage them in their efforts to reach it as soon as possible: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

We respectfully ask the six remaining countries to honor their agreement and set up a schedule to reach the 0.7% goal: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States.

Thank you.

For more information, or to send a personal letter to a government leader other than President Bush, please visit http://www.freerice.com

We, the undersigned, respectfully ask our government to help stop the tens of thousands of preventable deaths that occur every day from hunger and poverty-related diseases.

Specifically, we ask our country to honor the agreement it made and signed at the 2002 Monterrey Conference and again at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit to make concrete efforts towards giving 0.7% of our national income in aid to poor countries.

The United Nations estimates that when all 22 countries that signed the agreement meet the 0.7% goal, the resulting $195 billion each year will be enough to effectively end hunger and extreme poverty in the world.

We commend the countries that have already reached the 0.7% goal: Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

We also commend the countries that have set up a schedule to meet the 0.7% goal and encourage them in their efforts to reach it as soon as possible: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

We respectfully ask the six remaining countries to honor their agreement and set up a schedule to reach the 0.7% goal: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States.

Thank you.

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We signed the "We ask only for what has been promised." petition!
# 1,633:
8:39 pm PDT, Jul 1, Dana Yuen, California
# 1,632:
10:49 am PDT, Jun 30, Matthew Penney, Connecticut
For all the wealth that we control here in the United States and all the good work and money spent by the US Government around the Globe, I feel as a voter and citizen, that it is my responsiblity to voice my opinion on the 2002 Monterry Conference commitments made by the United States. I would ask that you as our government leaders would work to help aid the developing world by relieving there debts(Debt forgiveness), ending hunger and working to end poverty in the third world.
# 1,631:
2:12 am PDT, Jun 29, Name not displayed, Georgia
# 1,630:
5:23 am PDT, Jun 18, Name not displayed, Croatia
# 1,629:
11:23 am PDT, Jun 17, Name not displayed, California
The first fair trade agricultural products were tea and coffee, quickly followed by dried fruits, cocoa, sugar, fruit juices, rice, spices and nuts. While in 1992, a sales value ratio of 80% handcrafts to 20% agricultural goods was the norm, in 2002 handcrafts amounted to 25.4% of fair trade sales while commodity food lines were up at 69.4%. In 2002, FLO launched for the first time an International Fairtrade Certification Mark. The goals of the launch were to improve the visibility of the Mark on supermarket shelves, facilitate cross border trade and simplify procedures for both producers and importers. At present, the certification mark is used in over 50 countries and on dozens of different products, based on FLO?s certification for coffee, tea, rice, bananas, mangoes, cocoa, cotton, sugar, honey, fruit juices, nuts, fresh fruit, quinoa, herbs and spices, wine and footballs etc. Thousands of volunteers sold coffee from Angola and Nicaragua in Worldshops, in the back of churches, from their homes and from stands in public places, using the products as a vehicle to deliver their message: give disadvantaged producers in developing countries a fair chance on the world?s market, and you support their self-determined sustainable development. Also, check out these studies: * "Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability and Survival" at: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10607.php * One Cup at a time: Poverty Alleviation and Fair Trade coffee in Latin America at: www.colostate.edu/Depts/Sociology/FairTradeResearchGroup/doc/fairtrade.pdf * Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua? at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgirs/reprint/CGIRS-Reprint-2004-4/
# 1,628:
11:12 am PDT, Jun 17, Maggie McBride, Canada
# 1,627:
9:10 am PDT, Jun 13, Teana Milleson, Kansas
# 1,626:
2:58 am PDT, Jun 13, Gale White, Massachusetts
# 1,625:
8:38 pm PDT, Jun 11, Jaime Trainer, West Virginia
# 1,624:
11:22 am PDT, May 30, Veroshka Van Der Walt, South Africa
When we dont know where we are going, any road will do... what is happening to our societies, have we no shame and only greed... there is more than enough for us all, sharing is no shame...
# 1,623:
6:36 am PDT, May 28, Yasir Ismail, Sudan
it's a shame on us...to stand beside and watching our brothers and sisters in humanty starving to deith...
# 1,622:
4:59 am PDT, May 25, Ali Opodus, Pennsylvania
# 1,621:
4:46 am PDT, May 25, Maria Chua, Philippines
# 1,620:
7:55 pm PDT, May 24, Tananda Kalitan, Pennsylvania
# 1,619:
12:21 pm PDT, May 23, Alicya Lima, Netherlands
# 1,618:
10:15 am PDT, May 23, Jacqueline Tremlin, Idaho
# 1,617:
8:32 am PDT, May 23, Adam Klod, Illinois
# 1,616:
10:58 pm PDT, May 22, Tatiana Kostanian, California
# 1,615:
5:22 pm PDT, May 21, Magali Gomez, Chile
I'm sure that leaders in any way must act accordingly with what they ask for.
# 1,614:
6:46 am PDT, May 19, Patricia Moloney, Ireland
# 1,613:
1:16 pm PDT, May 14, Caroline Collins, Texas
# 1,612:
12:53 am PDT, May 12, Tierschuetzern Katerini, Greece
# 1,611:
4:40 am PDT, May 9, David Homan, Nebraska
# 1,610:
3:15 pm PDT, May 8, David Schwartz, Missouri
I know that you will make the right and moral decision.
# 1,609:
2:11 pm PDT, May 8, Elizabeth Moats, Georgia
The average income of the United States citizen is well over $20,000. It is devastating to think that we as a nation have done nothing to end world hunger, since we are the main ones behind it. The core nations of the world use up the majority of the planet's resources, yet these core nations hold much less of the population. We must stop this unequal distribution!
# 1,608:
8:25 am PDT, May 8, Kathleen Howren, Ohio
# 1,607:
8:07 am PDT, May 8, Megan Austin, Ohio
# 1,606:
6:10 am PDT, May 8, Sharon Z, Florida
# 1,605:
6:56 pm PDT, May 7, Shara Cain, Alabama
every perosn in this world has the right to be able to have food to nurture their bodys and it makes me sick that we as americans throw away so much and dont have to know whats it like to starve and have no food!
# 1,604:
4:24 pm PDT, May 7, Luigi Saracino, Italy
# 1,603:
7:28 pm PDT, May 6, Jeff Donovan, Canada
Help third world countries/culture of poverty & despair extend and develop their agroforesty as there is much need for Planet Earth to become sustainable beyond our own generations. Thank you.
# 1,602:
5:22 pm PDT, May 6, Shivonne Willcocks, New Zealand
# 1,601:
1:01 pm PDT, May 5, Zowie Kruslock, Oregon
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