A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck southern Philippines on Sunday, December 15, killing a 6-year-old girl after a wall fell and crushed her, according to Vincent Fernandez, mayor of Matanao town in Davao del Sur province. Fernandez said the full extent of the damage is not yet clear, but authorities are asking for food, water, tarpaulins, …
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In Asian countries, the issue of hunger remains a troubling and frustrating problem for both the developed and the less developed countries. As the population grows, so does the need for food. The United Nations declared that hunger is a global public health problem. More than half of all Asian children are malnourished and undersized …
Mr. Pio P Baquiran, the Director of Vraja Food For Life in the Philippines, was recently a recipient of The EspiCom Group’s Outstanding Filipino Luminary Awards 2021 for Private Citizens. Pio was the coordinator for Food For Life Philippines from 1987 to 2010 until he was appointed as Director for Vraja Food For Life in …
This week witnessed another powerful Puerto Rico earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 that has shocked the island. The devastating earthquake was first felt in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Governor Wander Vázquez Garced commented saying “We have not been exposed to this kind of emergency in 102 years,”. This is by far the strongest of …
According to Kenya’s interior minister, 34 people lost their lives as a result of overnight floods in Western Kenya on Saturday, November 23rd. Mudslides killed 29 of the 34 confirmed dead. 17 people died in a mudslide in Takmal, a village in the Pokot Central district and they claimed 12 more in the Parua and …
Over 1 million people displaced by massive flooding in Kerala Devastating floods have killed more than 400 people and engulfed entire towns in a southern state in India. A total of 10,28,000 people have been sheltered in 3,274 camps in the flood-hit districts, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Monday while tonnes of emergency aid …
Food for Life Global has officially moved its headquarters to the green city capital of Ljubljana, Slovenia and this is the story behind the move. Background Food for Life Global was established in the United States as a registered non-profit in the state of Maryland in 1995. The charity’s initial objective was to simply serve …
Over 1400 are known to have been killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck an area between the capital, Kathmandu, and the city of Pokhara, in Nepal. The military are battling against time to save unknown numbers of people feared trapped under rubble while medical workers have been stretched to their limits caring for nearly 2000 …
I remember the call I got from Indradyumna Swami in Sri Lanka. I was sitting in my office at the World Bank. I had just started a new job and was comfortable and peaceful. “Paul you have to come here. It is really bad. We need to respond to this. It is the biggest natural …
Mission: Food for Life Source: El Espectador, 13 April, 2014 Paul Rodney Turner said that the country [Colombia] has the most nutritious fruits and vegetables in the world. The food relief program is in 60 countries. In 1974, in Calcutta, India, the spiritual master Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness saw …
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