{"id":3757,"date":"2022-05-19T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/article\/bread-welcomes-5-billion-to-address-global-malnutrition-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T19:50:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T19:50:30","slug":"bread-welcomes-5-billion-to-address-global-malnutrition-crisis","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/article\/bread-welcomes-5-billion-to-address-global-malnutrition-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread Welcomes $5 Billion to Address Global Malnutrition Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Today, Bread for the World enthusiastically welcomed the inclusion of $5 billion in the Ukraine aid bill to address the global food and malnutrition crisis. Earlier this month, Bread for the World president and CEO Rev. Eugene Cho signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/sites\/default\/files\/emergency-malnutrition-funding-congressional-letter-may-2022-final.pdf\">joint letter<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nutritionceocouncil.com\/\">Nutrition CEO Council<\/a> asking Congress to appropriate $5 billion for the crisis. The Council is a body of leaders from international non-governmental organizations committed to ending the crisis of malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>Rising inflation, unprecedented droughts, and the war in Ukraine and other conflicts around the world have caused global food prices to reach the highest level ever recorded. Forty-nine million people teeter on the brink of famine and as many as 811 million people go to bed hungry every night.<\/p>\n<p>The following statement can be attributed to Rev. Cho, who also serves as co-chair of the Nutrition CEO Council:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter months of joining our allies in urging lawmakers to adequately address the growing global food and malnutrition crisis, Congress included an impressive $5 billion for emergency food, nutrition, and humanitarian assistance in the Ukraine aid bill. This funding will save the lives of countless people in the hardest hit countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we applaud the inclusion of food aid, we continue to urge the administration and Congress to quickly pass a bill that also provides funding for global vaccination and pandemic relief efforts. Without this funding, the world will not be able to overcome and fully emerge from the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Today, Bread for the World enthusiastically welcomed the inclusion of $5 billion in the Ukraine aid bill to address the global food and malnutrition crisis. Earlier this month, Bread for the World president and CEO Rev. Eugene Cho signed a joint letter from the Nutrition CEO Council asking Congress to appropriate $5 billion for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3758,"template":"","tags":[],"focus":[],"topic":[33],"resource_type":[11],"class_list":["post-3757","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-hunger","resource_type-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"focus","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}