Blog FeedThe Million Woman Milestone Achieved: What’s Ahead?
In the second installment of Chris Dunford’s monthly insights into the longstanding crisis that diminishes the lives of nearly a billion chronically hungry poor people, he observes how milestones are as much about the future as they are the past. The global crisis of food cost and availability is not going away soon; for the chronically hungry poor, it is a crushing reality that has no immediate solution and that heretofore did not have the perverse “benefit” of being portrayed as a crisis. How can Freedom from Hunger’s recent victory in surpassing the million-client threshold illuminate what must come next?
The Million Woman Milestone Achieved: What’s Ahead?
Early in 2008, we at Freedom from Hunger determined that we are directly serving more than one million women and that this milestone was achieved by doubling our outreach in just one year. This is not a cumulative figure for the total number of people reached since our founding in 1946-it is a snapshot of the number of current clients at the end of 2007. Read more …
