Here’s another link in the chain of helping to change the world.  For a $.25 (twenty five cents) donation to the World Food Programme of the United Nations, a cup will be filled with food for a starving school child.  Very simply, the idea behind this program is to attract children to school in order to get a meal, and in return give the child an education.  For people who are anti-terrorist, the bags of grain come printed with words stating that the food is from friends in the USA, and also attracts children away from terrorist recruiters that offer to feed its members as a benefit of joining.  This announcement on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. gives insight into the program.

We all know that the United Nations is a big lumbering beast with many faults.  In my search of WFP policy, there were promising statements of evaluation and accountability.  I could not find a breakdown of the percentage of how dollars were divvied, but I have heard that it is a very high ratio.  This program is the new media darling, but in fact has been around since 1963.  Having celebrity ties appears to help in this world, but then I think the 70+ million recipients in about 80 countries are just glad someone noticed and did something.  In the past, global efforts have crashed and burned because the goals were too high, too vague, or because someone forgot to ask if everyone was on the same page.  I’m glad this one is doing its job.  Read up!