Josette Sheeran Quotes

• One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

  Josette Sheeran

  Morning, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.

  Josette Sheeran

  Jobs, War, Fall

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• Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

  Josette Sheeran

  Issues, Together, Persons

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2013

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• Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Female, Faces

  "Interview with Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme". UN News Centre interview, www.un.org. September 20, 2010.

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• There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Expectations, Fundamentals

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• With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

  Josette Sheeran

  Focus, Priorities, Receiving

  "The Challenge of Hunger". The Lancet Article, www.thelancet.com. January 17, 2008.

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• Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.

  Josette Sheeran

  Giving, Waiting, Moments

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• Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Health, Malaria

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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

  Mother, Baby, Children

  "Filling Empty Bellies Is No Longer Enough". Department for International Development blog, dfid.blog.gov.uk. September 20, 2011.

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• This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

  Josette Sheeran

  Health, Disease, Hunger

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• If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Health, Years

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