Water: Critical to Ending Hunger
Today, we celebrate World Water Day!
This month and ahead of the 2015 Millennium Development Goal’s target date, the world succeeded in reducing by half the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water. Between 1990 and 2010, over two billion people gained access to improved drinking-water sources.
Yet, disparities remain between regions, urban and rural settings, and the rich and poor. Long-term progress on a variety of issues, including health, food security, gender equality and environmental sustainability, is dependent on whether people have ongoing access to safe drinking water, sanitation and sound hygiene practices.
This year’s World Water Day focuses on the link between water and food security. Watch this video from UNWater or read more to find out why water is so important to food security.
The Hunger Project (THP) works to end hunger by empowering rural communities to ensure increased access to clean water and improved sanitation, develop new water sources, and implement water conservation techniques. We invite you to invest in THP’s village partners who are working to end their own hunger with access to reliable, sustainable clean water sources.
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2012 U.S. National Leadership Conference
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Join investors and friends from around the United States in a
weekend gathering to be educated, inspired and engaged in the work of
The Hunger Project!
Saturday, March 31 – Sunday, April 1
New York, NY
Learn more!
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Rita Sarin on National Committee in India
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We are proud to announce the appointment of THP's own Rita Sarin as a key member of a high-level Committee on the Status of Women in India, charged with undertaking a comprehensive study of changes in the status of women there. Find out more!
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Investor Leadership Trips
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One of the most powerful opportunities for THP investors is to travel to one of our Program Countries as a member of a delegation to experience our work firsthand and return more empowered as an activist. Find out more about investor trips and check out our 2012 schedule.
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Making a Difference |

Simona from Oaxaca, Mexico, used to harvest vegetables like onions, lettuce and radishes on a small plot of her own land, but the great scarcity of water made it impossible for her to continue. Through a partnership with THP-Mexico, students from the Tecnológico de Monterrey (an independent university in Mexico) visited Simona’s community in June 2011. Now, the students and community are looking together at how best to make use of this valuable resource.
Learn more about Simona.
Meet more of our partners.
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Quote of the Month |
“We have reached an important target, but we cannot stop here. Our next step must be to target the most difficult to reach, the poorest and the most disadvantaged people across the world. The United Nations General Assembly has recognized drinking water and sanitation as human rights. That means we must ensure that every person has access.”
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations, March 6, 2012
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