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Josette Sheeran

Josette Sheeran (born 12 June 1954) is the United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti.

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There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Children, Cry, Expectation, Expectations, Food, Fundamentals

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

Children, Health, Old, Thousand, Years

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.

Back, Fall, Jobs, People, War, World

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

Disease, Diseases, Fix, Health, Hunger, Rare

If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.

Baby, Children, Ensure, Galvanising, Mother, Shrivelled

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

Children, Faces, Female, Passed

With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

Focus, Fragile, Priorities, Receiving, Systems, Top

Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.

Giving, Moment, Moments, Permission, Wait, Waiting

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV
AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Children, Combined, Health, Malaria, Seconds

One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

Day, Food, Inspiration, Morning, Motivation, Seven

Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

Issues, Person, Persons, Solved, Stand, Together