Pledge progress
A huge thank you to all of our supporters who signed our “Women Can’t Wait” pledge. It calls for world leaders to put poor women farmers at the centre of the fight against hunger.
Defeating hunger
At the September 2010 UN Summit, Concern Worldwide’s CEO Tom Arnold presented 10,336 signatures to Dr David Nabarro, the UN special representative on food security and nutrition. The pledge urges the UN and world leaders to support poor women farmers in their efforts to defeat hunger. It also asks that serious consideration is given to this group in their review of the Millennium Development Goals. Dr Nabarro received the pledge very positively, saying:
I welcome Concern’s Women Can’t Wait campaign, which has the support of over 10,000 signatories worldwide. Hunger is one of the most important challenges facing our world today, and it is essential that we acknowledge the central role women play as farmers, mothers, and providers of food to their families. All of us have a responsibility to make sure that by 2015, significant progress has been made in ending hunger for good.
Keeping our promise
During the summit, world leaders acknowledged the critical role played by poor women farmers in ending hunger. Concern welcomes this recognition, and we will continue to call on your support to push these leaders to keep the promise they made a decade ago: to halve the number of the world’s hungry by 2015.
Comments
By keeping this promise you will prevent the needless death of so many vulnerable children. Ireland has always been a country noted for its compassion - this must never change.
Thanks for your support, Deirdre. This is a very important issue and it's great to have such encouraging feedback.
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