One of my teachers, Dattatreya Siva Baba, encourages his students to serve food to those who are hungry. Not just buy some commodities and drop it off at the food bank. No. He means SERVE them. Literally, by going to any place where a hungry person might be and offering them food you have prepared yourself–with love and care. In this way, we honor and respect our brothers and sisters who are truly the same as we are….except they are lacking food.
The underlying goal of this website has always been offering another avenue for ending hunger, for leveling the field so ALL can benefit from the abundance of this Earth. In the following article written by one of my personal heroines, France Moore Lappe, [included in today's post in its entirety] you will see just how possible it is even for large cities to reverse hunger and poverty…if there is the compassion and the WILL to do so. Not surprising for me, the person who engineered this system in the third largest city in Brazil is also a woman.
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The City that Ended Hunger
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger.
by Frances Moore Lappé, YES! Magazine
Friday, March 13, 2009
“To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.” City of Belo Horizonte, Brazil (more…)




