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Created: Feb 22, 2008
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The Hunger Project is an unconventional, strategic organization. The Hunger Project does not provide “relief.” Rather, The Hunger Projects works in authentic partnership with the people of developing countries to address the root causes of hunger and to ensure that all people have the chance to lead healthy and productive lives.
The vision of a world free from hunger does not look like our present reality minus the problem of hunger.
Our vision of the future is not based on everyone achieving a Western-style, high-consumption lifestyle, which is environmentally unsustainable even for the one billion people who now live it. Nor does it permit one-sixth of the human family to continue to live in abject poverty.
The Hunger Project is committed to transcending this polarity — to creating a future that rejects the inevitability of hunger and recognizes the limitations of a consumerist society.
Achieving the sustainable end of hunger means nothing less than creating a new future for all humanity, a future where
* every day, every person has enough of the right food to be healthy and productive;
* babies are born healthy and strong, and girl babies are prized as much as boy babies;
* children stay alive, so parents can have smaller families;
* women and girls are full partners in society;
* people have control over their own lives and destinies, and all individuals have a chance to contribute;
* the values of honoring human beings and nature flourish.
The vision of a world free from hunger does not look like our present reality minus the problem of hunger.
Our vision of the future is not based on everyone achieving a Western-style, high-consumption lifestyle, which is environmentally unsustainable even for the one billion people who now live it. Nor does it permit one-sixth of the human family to continue to live in abject poverty.
The Hunger Project is committed to transcending this polarity — to creating a future that rejects the inevitability of hunger and recognizes the limitations of a consumerist society.
Achieving the sustainable end of hunger means nothing less than creating a new future for all humanity, a future where
* every day, every person has enough of the right food to be healthy and productive;
* babies are born healthy and strong, and girl babies are prized as much as boy babies;
* children stay alive, so parents can have smaller families;
* women and girls are full partners in society;
* people have control over their own lives and destinies, and all individuals have a chance to contribute;
* the values of honoring human beings and nature flourish.
