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

  Josette Sheeran

  Giving, Waiting, Moments

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• Con el cambio climático y las crisis sanitarias recibiendo merecidamente la atención internacional, ha llegado el momento de centrarse en el hambre como prioridad absoluta. La OMS considera que el hambre y la malnutrición son la amenaza más grave para la salud pública, y el cambio climático amenaza con desestabilizar aún más unos sistemas de producción de alimentos ya de por sí frágiles.

  Josette Sheeran

  Focus, Priorities, Receiving

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

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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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• Si algo bueno se saca de la actual hambruna en el Cuerno de África -entre las imágenes de madres que llevan a sus pechos marchitos a bebés moribundos y niños de ojos hundidos con vientres hinchados y extremidades de fósforo- será galvanizar al mundo sobre la necesidad de garantizar el acceso a alimentos nutritivos a las personas más vulnerables del planeta.

  Josette Sheeran

  Madre, bebé, niños

  "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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