Nutritional security
Aid organization: Every eleventh person is hungry
Hundreds of million people suffer from hunger. Cuts of aids live costs, warns Welthungerhilfe – and also provides insights into the desperate location in Gaza.
Welthungerhilfe is very concerned about the cuts of auxiliary funds in the United States, but also in Germany. “Cuts of funds cost human lives,” warned the President of the aid organization, Marlehn Thieme in Berlin. “What looks like a austerity course on paper means hunger, flight or even death for millions.”
More and more people suffer hunger
At the moment, 733 million people suffered from chronic hunger, explained Thieme. “That means every eleventh person in this world is hungry,” said Thieme. Since 2019, before Corona pandemic, this number has increased by 152 million people.
General Secretary Mathias Mogge complained about the cuts in the budget of the Ministry of Development, especially in the field of nutritional security and rural development, where 18 percent are less planned this year and with 53 percent less than one billion euros.
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Mogge expressed horror about the location in the Gaza strip. The humanitarian situation there is part of the worst, which he saw and heard in his over the age of 30. Despite their salary, the employees of Welthungerhilfe also no longer know how to feed themselves because the few available foods are excessively overpriced. 25 kilograms of wheat currently cost over $ 500.
The fuel for a water retirement plant operated by the organization that produces drinking water becomes scarce and, given bombing and evacuations, often cannot get to the system, said Mogge. The last time you were allowed to distribute food in February. The supply is largely part of the controversial Gaza Humanitrian Foundation. There are always reports on fatal incidents near their distribution centers.
Last year, Welthungerhilfe received 86.5 million euros in donations and 291.9 million euros from governments or other institutions. She carried out 649 foreign projects in 37 countries and supported around 18.7 million people. The organization helps local farmers, for example, with better seeds or the switch to other agricultural methods.
Annual report Welthungerhilfe
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Source: Stern
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