PEACE AND PLENTY VIA YOU AND F.A.O.

ONE hundred member nations of the Food and Agriculture Organisation now taking part in the Freedom from Hunger Campaign have read tribute in the annual FAO report to "The outstanding example" of Pope John's "historic Encyclical Mater et Magistra."
In this inspiring document, says the Director General, Dr. Sen. "His Holiness has done honour to FAO by praising the organisation's work for undertaking to establish fruitful accord among nations, promote the modernisation of agriculture, and alleviate the sufferings of hunger-stricken peoples."
THE RACE
After recording that: (a) in 1961/ 62 population growth had edged ahead of the growth in world production of foods and agricultural products, and (b) in the next decade food surpluses may continue to accumulate in sonic countries, while in others people would still be hungry, the Report then lists figures which are becoming too familiar: 300-500 million people get enough food in terms of quantity and well over a third of the world's population suffers
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some form of malnutrition. The national income of the under-developed countries must go up five per cent per year at Eh e present rate of population growth and overcome. the present cailorific deficiency.
ACTION
This is where FAO comes in — and behind their tremendously practical help, the charity of the "other third", the world's adequately fed. The Freedom From Hunger Campaign while giving the public the facts on hunger, poverty. and economic stagnation. is also the starting point for action projects. "Ammunition" — Cash — collected the world over will back S20 million worth of projects including Fertiliser programmes, Near East Wheat and Barley programme, World Seed Campaign. the Milk Producers Union of Kaira, India, which has raised milk production from 500 lbs. per day to 144,000 lbs. daily in the
past 20 years, benefiting 40,000 schoolchildren.
AMMUNITION
"Ammunition" suppliers include: non-denominational organisations such as 'Oxfam"; the 20 million member World Veterans Federation — currently paying all expenses of a poultry expert for West Africa, and other national voluntary bodies. Church organisations are prominent, including Al isereor. the association of German Bishops currently paying S90,000 for agricultural implements for Madagascar: and the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations with their "Family Fast Days". The equinoctial date of March 21, symbol of spring and sowing in the Northern Hemisphere, and of harvesting and thanksgiving in the southern is to be the centre of next year's "World Freedom From Hunger Week."
Britain's National Board of Catholic Women collected £30,000 through the 1962 Family Fast Day. This contribution for the Freedom from Hunger Campaign is being used to build a hospital in Dominica, W.I., for the treatment of acute malnutrition in babies.