The UN World Food Programme and Save the Children are distributing food at schools and clinics at Syrian refugee camps. The extra food is meant to combat malnutrition.
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World fails Syria again, low funding reduces food rations for war victims
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today that lack of timely funding has forced a 20 percent reduction in food rations for Syrians. WFP is trying to feed 4.25 million people inside the war-torn country.
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Syrian War: Shortage of Medical Care Killing Children
Save the Children’s new report shows the horrific devastation to Syria’s health care system after years of civil war. The impact is hardest on children.
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We Can Support Food and Peace for Syria
Whether it’s colleges, churches or community organizations you can do something to bring peace and humanitarian aid for all Syrians. While these battlefields are distant in miles, you can still be close at hand in bringing relief to the suffering.
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UN facing serious funding shortfall to feed Syria
The UN World Food Programme (WFP), in a report released today, says its “operations in Syria are facing a serious funding shortfall.” According to the report only 4 percent of funding requirements have been received.
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UN Security Council demands Syrians get relief from chilling darkness of hunger
The United Nations Security Council yesterday approved a resolution (2139) demanding full access to the starving war victims in Syria. The resolution calls for an end to all violence to allow the country to rebuild.
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UN demands continued access to feed war victims in Syria
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday demanded “continuous and sustainable access to provide food and to monitor and assess needs,” in Homs, Syria and other parts of the war-torn country.
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UN airlifts life-saving food into Syria
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today started airlifting food from Iraq into Northeast Syria to feed starving war victims. The food is for 30,000 displaced persons in Qamishli.
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UN World Food Program director meets Syrian war victims
The UN World Food Program’s (WFP) director, Ertharin Cousin, was in Syria today to meet victims of the brutal civil war. She also held talks with high-ranking government officials about gaining access to hungry Syrians trapped by the fighting.
Cousin visited a WFP food distribution center in Damascus. There she met displaced persons living under dire circumstances, including 32 members of an extended family sharing one apartment.
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For Thanksgiving Take in a ‘Silent Guest’
Marathon Champ Paul Tergat, a WFP School Meals Ambassador, distributing food in Kenya. (WFP/Francesco Broli)
Thanksgiving is upon us. So too is the famous shopping day Black Friday. It’s also the anniversary of a great American initiative. This one started after World War II when Americans fed a “silent guest” at their holiday meals.
It was dreamed up by a former aspiring actress named Iris Gabriel. She gave up on Hollywood only to find her biggest role was in feeding the starving people in the war devastated countries in Europe.
At Thanksgiving on 1947 Americans were asked to imagine taking in one of the world’s hungry to their holiday celebration. They could mail the cost to feed that “silent guest” to a committee in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the home of Thanksgiving. A CARE package was then sent to a hungry person overseas.
The “silent guest” plan was endorsed by governors around the country including Robert Bradford of Massachusetts, a descendant of the Pilgrims.
As this Thanksgiving and Black Friday approaches, there are two huge emergencies ongoing in the Middle East and the Philippines. The war in Syria has left millions displaced and hungry. The colder temperatures are moving in too making relief even more difficult.
The super typhoon Haiyan has destroyed whole communities in the Philippines, leaving them without food, water or housing. The United Nations says 11.5 million people are affected by the Typhoon and 544,606 people are displaced. Food, clean water, medicine and shelter are desperately needed. Hunger, malnutrition and disease will escalate among the population unless aid arrives in time. The storm’s impact can last long past the event itself.
At this very moment Catholic Relief Services is helping provide emergency shelters. This is especially crucial with the risk of more rains coming.
So this holiday season help a ‘silent guest” by donating to a humanitarian agency like Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services, World Food Programme, UNICEF and at your local food bank.
And you can also donate without opening your wallet by using the free hunger fighting app Charity Miles or playing the online game FreeRice.
Thanksgiving and Black Friday should be about sharing. For only by doing so can we have a world of peace, goodwill and hope.
This commentary originally appeared at the Orange County Register newspaper.
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Author William Lambers 