The Power of Youth and the Winnable Battle Against Global Hunger
By Drew Barrymore, The Huffington Post
I’ve worked with the WFP for 3 years now and have been fortunate enough to become one of their Ambassadors Against Hunger.
It’s heartbreaking to picture the number of children suffering from hunger around the world and one of the many reasons I love teaming up with Josette is because of her always optimistic outlook on the solution. How can Josette sit in that room and say that this battle against hunger is “winnable” when the number of children dying from it is so vast? Well, she shares the facts to support that statement beautifully, and I’ll leave that to her. But for me, when I see a room full of people eager to learn how to fight global hunger, when I’ve taken the field trips and seen the effect of the WFP in action, I am overwhelmed and I see the truth in her statement — this is a winnable battle.
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