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    The Spirit of the Marshall Plan: Taking Action Against World Hunger, School Lunches for Kids Around the World
    The Spirit of the Marshall Plan: Taking Action Against World Hunger, School Lunches for Kids Around the World
    The Spirit of the Marshall Plan: Taking Action Against World Hunger, School Lunches for Kids Around the World
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    The Spirit of the Marshall Plan: Taking Action Against World Hunger, School Lunches for Kids Around the World

    By William Lambers

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    Invoking the same spirit that fueled the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, author William Lambers calls for a global school lunch program to fight child hunger. 300 million children suffer from hunger worldwide. School lunch programs fight child hunger and also boost school attendance and performance. This book highlights the use of school lunch programs in Europe following World War II and how they can be used today in countries like Afghanistan, Kenya, Guatemala and Sudan. The future of these nations depends on a nourished and educated youth. Special attention is given to the work of charities such as Food for the Poor, Childslife International and the World Food Program. Supporting the U.S. government McGovern-Dole Food for Education program is seen as key to ensuring every child around the globe can receive a school lunch. McGovern-Dole helps fund the work of the World Food Program, Catholic Relief Services and other organizations that carry out school lunch programs in developing countries.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Lambers
    Release dateMar 21, 2013
    ISBN9781301325283
    The Spirit of the Marshall Plan: Taking Action Against World Hunger, School Lunches for Kids Around the World
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    William Lambers

    William Lambers is the author of several books and numerous articles on global hunger, nuclear arms control and other topics. His writings have been published by the History News Network, New York Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, Des Moines Register, the Bismarck Tribune, the Bakersfield Californian, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Buffalo News, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Duluth News Tribune, the Charleston Gazette-Mail and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He has feature columns running at Blogcritics Magazine, Examiner.com and American Chronicle. He partnered with the United Nations World Food Programme on the book Ending World Hunger: School Lunches for Kids Around the World. The book features over 50 interviews about school feeding programs that fight child hunger in Afghanistan, Sudan, Nepal, Yemen and many other countries. Lambers is a graduate of the College of Mount St. Joseph in Ohio (BA, MSOL). He is also a member of the Feeding America Blogger Council.

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      The Spirit of the Marshall Plan - William Lambers

      The Spirit of the Marshall Plan: Taking Action Against World Hunger, School Lunches for Kids Around the World

      by William Lambers

      Published by William Lambers at Smashwords.com

      Copyright 2007 by William Lambers

      Contents

      Heroic World War II Mission

      Fighting Child Hunger in Austria and Germany

      Hunger and the Marshall Plan

      Expand the McGovern-Dole Global School Feeding Program

      School Lunches for Kids Around the World: Hey, Why Not?

      McGovern-Dole Global School Feeding Program in Action

      Friends of the World Food Program Supports Bipartisan Effort to Expand the McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program

      School Lunches in Kenya: ChildsLife International

      Farm Bill Should Give Help to Hungry Children Abroad

      Surge of Humanitarian Aid Needed in Iraq

      School Lunch Programs in Iraq

      Sending Child Conflict Survivors Back to Class

      Taking Action Against World Hunger

      By helping feed the world, we help ourselves

      Talking Points for Letter to the Editor

      About School Feeding Programs

      Facts About Child Hunger

      Hunger is a silent visitor who comes like a shadow. He sits beside every anxious mother three times each day. He brings not alone suffering and sorrow, but fear and terror. He carries disorder and the paralysis of government, and even its downfall. He is more destructive than armies, not only in human life but in morals. All of the values of right living melt before his invasions, and every gain of civilization crumbles. But we can save these people from the worst, if we will.

      Herbert Hoover

      Heroic World War II Mission

      United States and British planes undertook a heroic mission during the final days of World War II in Europe. Much of Europe had already been liberated from German occupation. But part of the Netherlands was still not free. In late April and early May, 1945 British and American planes flew into the Nazi-occupied part of the Netherlands. But their mission had nothing to do with striking the German army. Instead, the British and the Americans were dropping desperately needed food supplies to the Dutch. Food shortages were rampant due to the ongoing war. Many people in the Netherlands lost their lives to hunger. The Allies actually negotiated with the German leadership in the Netherlands to arrange food deliveries by air and later by truck.

      Allied leadership had planned for that moment when they could finally bring food relief to the Dutch. In the town of Oss, in the liberated section of the Netherlands, a stockpile of food was built up in late 1944. General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, issued a directive in December, 1944 which organized the relief effort. The stockpile at Oss was identified as crucial for phase I of the operation.

      Food for the starving could not come soon enough and the

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