Support the McGovern-Dole Program to Fight Child Hunger

To Support School Feeding SIgn the McGovern-Dole Global School Meals Petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/supp...

Ask Congress to support the McGovern-Dole program that provides school lunches to children in impoverished countries. A public service announcement narrated by Amy Walker

Your help is urgently needed.

Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, plans to cut the House-passed mandatory funding for the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program from $840 million to $60 million.

This drastic funding cut is unacceptable. Urge your Senator/Member of Congress to restore the $840 million in mandatory funding for the McGovern-Dole Program. At a time of record high food prices that are pushing people into poverty, we need to feed more hungry schoolchildren across the globe, not cut funding for school meals.

Who: Anyone who is concerned about child hunger and the urgent food crisis.

What: Contact Senators and Members of Congress and urge them to support $840 million in mandatory funding as included in the House of Representatives' original version of the farm bill.

Here are some points you can raise:




McGovern-Dole provides one of the only effective safety nets in countries that have been hard-hit by the dramatic increase in food prices in recent months. School feeding programs coupled with take-home rations help ensure that during this difficult time, parents still send their children to school.
Mandatory funding means that the McGovern-Dole Program will have guaranteed funding during the life of the farm bill, which will help ensure greater long-term planning by organizations that implement the program.
If the McGovern-Dole Program is expanded and provided with mandatory funding, it will reach many more of the 59 million children in the world's poorest countries who currently attend primary school hungry.
The delivery of school meals increases attendance rates and helps break the cycle of poverty and despair in some of the world's poorest countries.

When: Immediately until the farm bill is passed.

How: Toll Free: 1-866-569-FOOD*

*The toll free number will connect your to the Capitol operator. Then, you will have to ask to be connected to your Senator or Member of Congress.


McGovern-Dole action alert courtesy of the Friends of the World Food Program (www.friendsofwfp.org)

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