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This article spells out how big business is controlling the system of school lunches in America.  This system is broken.  I would love to hear from others on ideas to fix it.

How The Food Industry Eats Your Kids Lunch  December 3,2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/school-lunches-and-the-food-industry.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

When will history stop repeating itself where the poor people have to suffer like this. It's devastating to think that death from hunger is only getting worse.  How can we all help?  Please send me ideas on how America can get behind a movement to help these children BEFORE the 29,000 children dead turns to 300,000!

Full Story Here:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/somalia-famine-aid-stolen_n_927126.html

The U.N. says more than 3.2 million Somalis – nearly half the population – need food aid after a severe drought that has been complicated by Somalia's long-running war. More than 450,000 Somalis live in famine zones controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants, where aid is difficult to deliver. The U.S. says 29,000 Somali children under the age of 5 already have died.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Thousands of sacks of food aid meant for Somalia's famine victims have been stolen and are being sold at markets in the same neighborhoods where skeletal children in filthy refugee camps can't find enough to eat, an Associated Press investigation has found.

The U.N.'s World Food Program for the first time acknowledged it has been investigating food theft in Somalia for two months. The WFP said that the "scale and intensity" of the famine crisis does not allow for a suspension of assistance, saying that doing so would lead to "many unnecessary deaths."

And the aid is not even safe once it has been distributed to families huddled in the makeshift camps popping up around the capital. Families at the large, government-run Badbado camp, where several aid groups have been distributing food, said they were often forced to hand back aid after journalists had taken photos of them with it.

Ali Said Nur said he received two sacks of maize twice, but each time was forced to give one to the camp leader.

"You don't have a choice. You have to simply give without an argument to be able to stay here," he said.

Somali Children Dying of Hunger---click for Huffington Post Story

Somalian children are dying of hunger at an alarming rate, mostly due to migration from drought and the political climate with history repeating itself, again.  If they are lucky enough to reach a camp in Kenya, they may get food, but it seems that many children are dying in route.

How many times do we have to see this devastation?  It does create a feeling of helplessness, especially with what is happening in our American economy, people out of work, and many hungry.

As a parent, I can't imagine the struggles of these Somali people and parents, having to leave many of their children on the side of the road.

We need another Hands Across America and We Are The World! I am game if anyone wants to join me ..to put together a major event to help the Somoli people and the children, and create a community to help America with this hunger crisis.  How about you?  Sponsors? Individuals?

Anyone can also give at www.ECOChallenge2020.org where any donations or memberships between now and October 1st will be donated in full to the on the ground hunger AID organization through 360 CNN Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.  They are focusing their efforts on local Somali organizations with a proven on the ground track record of helping the children there.