Join us in helping Save The Children call on the government to take up the baton in the Race Against Hunger

[FrancesMumsnet]

Hello,

Following on from the thread, in which we asked you whether you would support Save the Children's campaign to tackle world hunger. We're happy to say that the UK government will be hosting a Global Hunger Summit at the end of the week to tackle the fact that millions of people die every year because they don't have enough food.

The Olympics have inspired so many of us, and children across the world, but hunger stops too many of those in developing countries taking even the first step on that journey. David Cameron has invited other world leaders to this meeting on the 12th August, and Save the Children wants to make sure they aim to leave the greatest lasting legacy that London 2012 can offer for children around the world. They want the government to put hunger and malnutrition high up on the G8 agenda when the UK assume presidency in 2013.

Save the Children would like you to join them call on Cameron to take up the baton on the race against hunger by signing their petition:
www.savethechildren.org.uk/raceagainsthunger. They are asking for ambitious targets to reduce malnutrition and hunger worldwide.

Do please sign the petition if you haven't already done so.

Thanks,
MNHQ

This would be the same government that is currently plunging huge numbers of families into poverty?

This would be the same government that seems to rejoice that the "third" sector are opening food banks and feeding kids in the UK.

I don't believe in "all the charity starts at home either"

I just think its fecking hypocritical of this government to pay lip service to this noble ideal (obv they won't actually do anything), when they blatantly don't give a shit about anyone other than themselves and their wealthy cronies.

Only of there's a guarantee that no formula companies are involved in the aid programme. Highly suspicious after reading politics of Breastfeeding

And quite agree with others what tosh this is after Cameron has reversed the child poverty targets in the uk. Disgusting

"Only of there's a guarantee that no formula companies are involved in the aid programme. Highly suspicious after reading politics of Breastfeeding"

Okay. Because women in third world countries shouldn't be allowed the same freedom to choose the way they feed their baby that we have here in the UK and other first world countries?

I also agree that Cameron et al are hypocrites. Let's help our own people before we try to feed the freakin' world.

The children of the world, here and abroad that are going hungry are the children of the working class. Yes we need to be concerned about world wide hunger, the same rich bankers and corporations that refuse to play fair are responsible for the situation here as they are abroad.

There is a problem with marketing formula milk in communities were lack of access to clean drinking water means many babies become very ill and some die. It seems that big business exploits and then steps in as saviour, when it actual fact it is always about the bottom line, there is nothing charitable about their actions. I have no doubt that part of Dave's solution will involve private enterprise not just charity or government subsidies.

Tee- read the book/some info before you wade in please. I know the solution to child hunger isn't diarrhoea, death or at best further poverty induced by unsustainable ff. at best nestle etc offload out of date or contaminated shipments of formula.
Then there's the issues around only a tiny percentage of the world population owning a fridge or any other sanitation equipment - they don't hand out kettles and generators with the cans of formula. Plus Nestlé et al are not too find of printing the instructions in native languages so formula preparation becomes hazardous if it hadn't already because once the fee samples have caused early cessation of bf, ff is so prohibitively expensive that these poor mother have no choice but to water down feeds. I could go in of you could look at baby milk action.

Formula companies have exploited aid for decades and I will never support this.

After reading Dead Aid (which I heard about on mn ) I am suspicious of all aid packages anyway.

But you know, freedom to choose n all that. Choice? CHOICE? explodes

Maples - its ok so have we killed a thread indirectly started by Call Me Dave? Result