среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Woman labors on hunger's front lines

Catherine Bertini has watched starving children die.

She has traveled the globe, away from home for about one in everythree days for nine years now.

It has not been easy heading the World Food Program of the UnitedNations, the former Chicagoan says.

But it has been worth it. One year away from the end of her secondfive-year term as CEO of the program, Bertini continues to spread asimple message-that hunger can be alleviated with very little.

"It costs about 10 cents a day to feed one child in North Korea,"she said.

In a visit here last week, the 51-year-old Bertini spoke of thehurdles she faces-and why she thinks they can, and will, be …

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