Ready to join today's East Africa Hunger Crisis Day of Action in Parliament, with volunteers coming from all over the 🇬🇧 to urge the gov to immediately disburse significant, quality & flexible funding for the humanitarian response #EastAfricaCannotWait #HungryForAction CARE International UK
🚨Stopping children from going hungry must be part of the fight against climate change, writes Wawira Njiru of @food4education in Reuters. It's time to save lives, build resilience, and secure the future. Read: reut.rs/3ywA6hn #HungryforAction
In her closing remarks for this East Africa Hunger Crisis Day of Action, Preet Kaur Gill flags the importance of ensuring funding reaches local grassroot orgs, especially women-led orgs to achieve gender equality & #SDG5
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For today’s #EastAfricaCannotWait ‘Day of Action’, @bellissimaaimee and I are really excited to speak with Kirsty Blackman, our MP for Aberdeen North.
She has previously been a champion for #vaccineequity & the The Global Fund. Will she be #HungryForAction ?
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Minister Andrew Mitchell flags the importance to tackle root causes of the hunger crisis and to invest and put aside funding for resilience & climate mitigation
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As hunger sweeps Southern Africa, it's time for the int. community to step up, not just to provide relief, but to build resilience & secure the future for smallholder farmers on the forefront of the climate crisis. Read: bit.ly/44SsK3E #HungryforAction #ClimateAction
In terms of policy intervention, we need public private partnership to enable effective implementation of our policies. I believe the private sectors just as the public sectors have innovative ideas and resources to add on to the existing efforts –Saustine
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I’m taking part in the Day of Action to end #globalhunger with ONE UK. My plea is for the UK to immediately disburse significant funding for humanitarian response. #EastAfricaCannotWait #HungryforAction
Delighted to hear #WFPLaureates4Action call on #G20 leaders to:
- Prioritize ending global hunger and poverty
- Unite for bold, collective action now to save lives, build resilience & secure the future!
worldfoodprize.org/LaureateLetter #HungryforAction
Inspiring day UK Parliament, with fellow campaigners for the Day of Action to end #globalhunger . We discussed the hunger crisis in East Africa and the role the UK can play in the international response to this humanitarian emergency. 🌍📢✊ #HungryForAction #EastAfricaCannotWait
Buoyed by the packed room at yesterday's #HungryForAction event w/100 volunteers from across 🇬🇧 & speeches from Andrew Mitchell Preet Kaur Gill Vicky Ford Hilary Benn. Thanks to 40 MPs who met constituents to discuss the urgent need to avert the hunger crisis #EastAfricaCannotWait
I was at Portobello Beachfront today as a ONE UK Community Leader to raise awareness about the ongoing hunger crisis in East Africa, which is the worst in living memory.
Please join the action: linktr.ee/eafricaaction
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Investing in smallholder farmers can transform food systems, improve nutrition, regenerate nature & soil, & promote sustainable economic growth. What’s needed is financing at scale & reaching them directly Wangari... Alvaro Lario #HungryforAction #sdg2
Devastating and powerful coverage in the Mirror today. One person is dying of hunger every 30 seconds in East Africa.
We need action to save lives now and break the cycle of crises.
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Thank you 🙏 to everyone who came to todays #Clydebank Library 📚 Surgery & thank you Holly McAllister for catching up to discuss the ONE UK #HungryforAction #campaign
Today we're at #Westminster asking MPs to support the people of East Africa in what is proving to be the worst hunger crisis for decades.
Hear from our campaigner Isla explaining what we're asking of them📢
Watch this space for updates! #HungryForAction
Here's Sakaria, speaking about today's training ahead of the mass lobby event happening in London as we speak.
He's one of around 100 volunteers who have come to raise and engage MPs on the East African Hunger Crisis.
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A great panel to kick off Global Citizen ⭕ #GlobalCitizenNow Summit. Ursula von der Leyen Hugh Evans Hugh Jackman +
Sabrina Dhowre Elba, who highlights the impact of climate change on small-scale farmers supported by International Fund for Agricultural Development #SDG2 #HungryforAction