Rotary Member Helps People of Sudan Battle Hunger

Analia Ramos, Food Security Coordinator in Sudan for Concern Worldwide and a 2004-06 Rotary World Peace Fellow from Argentina, has helped the people of South Sudan battle hunger for nearly a year.  Ramos works on projects that provide seeds and tools to poor households, establish seed banks and tree nurseries, and train people in agricultural plowing, beekeeping, and blacksmithing.  According to Ramos, hunger has claimed more lives than armed conflict or disease.  Therefore, Ramos maintains that freedom from hunger is a basic human right.

“Rotary gave me a new angle,” she says.  “I saw how working in food security contributes to peace, to achieve human rights for most of the people who do not have a voice.”

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Worth the smile of a healthy child

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