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An Interview with Negar Gerami of the United Nations World Food Programme in Iran

People fleeing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have sought refuge in neighboring Iran. The United Nations World...

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Jaime Vallaure of the United Nations World Food Programme talks about school feeding in Honduras

Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, with one out of three children under five years old...

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An interview with Abdou Dieng of the UN World Food Programme in Guinea

The African nation of Guinea has seen increasing poverty rates in recent years. The United Nations World Food...

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School Feeding to fight hunger in Guatemala

In Latin America, the country of Guatemala suffers high child malnutrition rates. Jennifer Mizgata, a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)...

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James Jones of World Vision talks about school feeding in Burundi

The charity World Vision is helping to build peace in the African nation of Burundi. World Vision's work includes...

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An Interview with Domingos Afonso Ndedica of the UN World Food Programme in Angola

Angola is recovering from a 27-year-long civil war that ended in 2002. Twenty-eight percent of this African...

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ChildsLife International provides food for orphans in Romania and Kenya

In an episode of the classic TV series The Adventures of Black Beauty, two orphans try to steal the famous horse. They are caught, though, by Vicky and Kevin, the two children who take care of Black Beauty.

The two orphans know only a life of stealing and desperation. They plead for help: "You just don't understand what it's like to be an orphan."

Vicky and Kevin do what they can to help, but at the end of the episode the two orphans are still on the run. Vicky, played by Judi Bowker, realizes how fortunate she is to have a family, and remarks, "It could just as easily be us, couldn't it… out there tonight... alone."

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