More than 1 billion people around the world go to bed hungry each night. That's more than triple the population of the U.S. alone!
Right now, U.S. food security and hunger relief programs are spread over dozens of federal agencies, hampering the effort to provide coordinated and effective aid to the world's most vulnerable. With a smart strategy, we can cut hunger in half by 2015.
H.R. 2817, the Roadmap to End Global Hunger and Promote Food Security Act of 2009, lays out recommendations to fight hunger. The bill calls for a comprehensive national plan to not only fight hunger, but create sustainable opportunities that will allow families around the world to feed themselves next month, next year and 10 years from now.
Sign the petition and urge our leaders to cut through the red tape and pass a comprehensive, national strategy to fight world hunger!
Dear Representative [Name],
Right now, more than one billion people around the world go to bed hungry each night. That's more than triple the population of the U.S. alone.
With a smart strategy, we can meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goal to cut hunger in half by 2015.
However, U.S. food security and hunger relief programs are spread over dozens of federal agencies, hampering the effort to provide coordinated and effective aid to the world's most vulnerable.
H.R. 2817, the The Roadmap to End Global Hunger and Promote Food Security Act establishes a comprehensive national strategy. The bill calls for strong leadership from the White House and in Congress by:
-Establishing a White House Office On Global Hunger and appointing a Hunger Coordinator to take the lead in putting the comprehensive strategy into action and in improving the intergovernmental coordination needed to successfully address global hunger.
-Reviving the Congressional Select Committee on Hunger perform the vital task of coordinating the multiple congressional committees with legislative authority over global hunger issues.
Hunger is a solvable problem if we work together. Please show your support for the world's most vulnerable. Co-sponsor HR 2817.
