Hunger and Poverty

A Canadian who survived the great depression made this comment: "If Starvation is what they do in India, then I never starved. If being hungry is being without a scrap of food for more than three days at a time, then I was hungry lots of times".
 
Oxfam  Web page of the U.S. office of the world-wide hunger organization. Started as the Oxford Famine appeal, they have yet to run out of urgent work to do. 
The California Emergency Foodlink  A reader who helped develop the site recommended it. 
The Gap Between Rich And Poor Runaway consumption widens gap between rich and poor 
-A summary of the results of  1998's United Nations' Human Development report, focussing on consumption patterns and their effects on the more than one billion people who cannot meet their basic daily needs.