The Hunger Project: On the Record
| July 18, 2008 |
News India Times (Vol.
XXXIX No. 29) -- The Hunger Project; Empowering Women to Be Change
Agents by Ela Dutt The 30-year old Radhia Adivasi, Sarpanch of the village council (panchayat) in Chak Dehi village, Madhya Pradesh, has brought benefits to her 1,800 constituents...She is the kind of woman The Hunger Project has worked with over the years to build leadership capacity for local democracy to function and succeed...(download pdf of full article) |
| July 7, 2008 | The Hunger Project featured on two major networks in one day! |
| June 11, 2008 | The Hunger Project Press Release: Over 1.6 Million Mobilized to End Own Hunger |
| June 2008 |
Rivaaj Magazine -- The Hunger Project: Empowering Women to Make
a Change in Their Communities It is clear that women's leadership in panchayats is transforming India. These elected women — now role models to other women in their communities — are altering the development agenda to address issues critical to village life...(link to full article) |
| May 20, 2008 |
The Sydney Morning Herald -- Women-run
Banks Are Breaking the Poverty Cycle by Connie Levett. ...there are ways to escape the poverty and chronic hunger trap, said Ms Abdella, an Ethiopian aid worker with the New York-based The Hunger Project, established in 1977. She is in Australia to raise awareness about the non-government organisation's microfinance program, which empowers women to break the cycle... (link to full article) |
| May 15, 2008 | The Hunger Project Statement on the Current Situation in Burma - May 2008 |
| May 5, 2008 | The Hunger Project Statement on the World Food Crisis - May 2008 |
| April 29, 2008 | Letter to the Editor submitted to the Economist by Jill Lester, in response to "The New Face of Hunger," April 19, 2008 (download pdf of letter) (link to full article) |
| April 19, 2008 |
The
Daily Star (Bangladesh) -- Women Leaders Vow to
Establish Gender-Equality Around a thousand women yesterday vowed to resist those running a violent street campaign against the national women development policy. They made the vow at the second national convocation organised by The Hunger Project, a non-government organisation working to end poverty and hunger...(link to full article) |
| April 16, 2008 | Letter to the Editor submitted to the New York Times by Jill Lester, in response to "U.N. Panel Urges Changes to Feed Poor While Saving Environment," April 16, 2008, by Steven Erlanger (download pdf of letter) (link to full article) |
| April 4, 2008 | Letter to the Editor submitted to the Philadelphia Inquirer by Jill Lester, in response to "The 'Bottom Billion,'" March 30, 2008, by Paul Polak (download pdf) |
| April 1, 2008 | Letter to the Editor submitted to the Los Angeles Times by Jill Lester, in response to "A 'Perfect Storm' of Hunger," April 1, 2008 by Tracy Wilkinson and Edmund Sanders (download pdf of letter) (link to full article) |
| March 24, 2008 | Letter to the Editor submitted to the Financial Times by Jill Lester, in response to "UN Pleads for $500 Million to Avoid Food Crisis," March 24, 2008, by Javier Blas (download pdf of letter) (link to full article) |
| March 24, 2008 |
The Hindu -- Women Empowerment Brings
Social Change in Many Palani Villages A year-long training, continuous and effective awareness campaign on rights and powers of local bodies and timely guidance for proper administration of local bodies help several women representatives of local bodies in Palani taluk achieve their desired goals in administration and take government schemes to people, mostly in remote villages in time, thanks to a leadership training programme organised under Hunger Project...(link to full article) |
| March 24, 2008 |
Hindustan Times -- India Has
Most Elected Women Representatives Since 2000, the Hunger Project has trained over 65,000 women panchayat leaders in legal, financial and administrative aspects of running a local government. It is is working in 14 states...(link to full article) |
| March 21, 2008 |
Christian Science Monitor -- Readers Respond to 'An End to
Poverty' by Mark Lange Jill Lester: "Poverty will not end until and unless the girls and women of the developing world are empowered...(link to article) |
| March 11, 2008 |
Investing in Women and Girls: NYC
Celebrates International Women's Day Several hundred women and men gathered last Thursday evening at St. Bartholomew’s Church in midtown Manhattan to celebrate International Women’s Day. The celebration, organized by a coalition of organizations was one of the only public events in |
| March 8, 2008 |
Hindustan Times -- Eye on the Future Not one to sit at home, and weep Guneet accepted the setback and got on with her life...[She] soon found herself volunteering at the now Qutub-based organisation, The Hunger Project. Today she manages their PR and communications portfolio...(link to full article) |
| March 7, 2008 | Letter to the Editor submitted to The Guardian (UK) by Jill Lester, in response to "Action on Poverty Leaving Women and Girls Behind - Report," March 7, 2008, by Larry Elliott (download pdf of letter) (link to full article) |
| March 4, 2008 |
Metro -- Voices: Time to Invest in Women
by Jill Lester There's no doubt about it -- Flora Mtuwana is an extraordinary woman. This mother of two from Malawi spent most of her life in a daily struggle to meet the basic needs of her family...(link to full article) |
| March 2008 |
Women, Power and Politics -- Two Million Women Leaders
and Counting (An online exhibit of the International Museum of Women) Because women are traditionally responsible for meeting their families' basic needs, their contribution to local government has been crucial. It is clear that women's leadership in panchayats is transforming India...(link to full article). |
| February 12, 2008 | Letter to the Editor submitted to the New York Times by Rita Sarin, Country Director of The Hunger Project-India, in response to the article by Nicholas Kristof entitled "When Women Rule" (download pdf) |
| February 8, 2008 |
Burlington Free Press -- Curbing Hunger, Here and Beyond Social action comes in many forms these days, sometimes in unlikely combinations, such as: grilled cheese makers in Vermont teaming up with female farmers in Burkina Faso. Or students' grasping world hunger issues ... with greasy fingers...(full article) |
| January 26, 2008 | Letter to the Editor submitted to The Economist by Jill Lester, in response to "The Starvelings," January 26, 2008 (download pdf of letter) (link to full article) |
| December 2, 2007 |
Hindustan Times -- Good Things Happen When Women Govern Rita Sarin, country director of the Hunger Project, argues that this is all to the good. When a woman holds the reins, she is more likely to invest government monies in providing better quality rations to the needy than in constructing a lamppost...(link to full article) |
| December 2007 | Women and Ending Hunger -- The Inextricable Link
by Joan Holmes Featured in the UN World Food Programme's Hunger Series 2007: Hunger and Health. For more information on how to order the publication, click here. |
| August 2001 | Statement on Robert Mugabe and the situation in Zimbabwe. |