No breakfast for children because of aid cuts

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

By KER MUNTHIT and MICHAEL CASEY

KAMPONG SPEU, Cambodia (AP) - At dawn in a ramshackle elementary school in rural Cambodia, the children think of only one thing: their stomachs. They anxiously await the steaming buckets of free rice delivered to their desks.

But by the end of the month, they will no longer get free breakfast from the U.N. World Food Program. About 450,000 Cambodian students will become the latest victims of soaring global food prices.

Five local suppliers have defaulted on contracts to provide rice because they can get a higher price elsewhere, program officials say. Prices of rice have tripled on the global market since December.

Faced with a shortfall of more than 14,000 tons of rice, and with more pressing needs to meet, the World Food Program stopped the free breakfasts in March. The schools' remaining stocks are expected to run out in the coming days.

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080526/D90TJ6M81.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Keep it kicked for the kids!

[rAVES]

2. Disgraceful KR eom

[tabasco]

3. Five local suppliers have defaulted on contracts to provide rice because they can get a higher price

Any wonder why I'm a misanthrope?

[SharonAnn]

14. They have Republicans in Cambodia?

[I Have A Dream]

4. K&R.

:cry:

[kimmylavin]

5. Jesus.

"Five local suppliers have defaulted on contracts to provide rice because they can get a higher price elsewhere".

Don't let those starving kids get in the way of your bottom line...

[kestrel91316]

6. "Let them eat cake. " - Dubya

[Stuart G]

20. well put...

I wonder how many days in his life, George Bush has been hungry?

[debunkthelies]

24. What can one expect....

from the son of a woman who thought the people of New Orleans were better off in the Super Dome?

[jjr5]

7. This is wrong.

These kids need not only food but the feeling of security that comes with being able to eat.

[Maat]

8. Maybe we can all donate to the program.

I'll have to research it.

[Spouting Horn]

12. Maybe more would be amenable

to donating, if it weren't for the fact that Big Shots at the UN seem to have a taste for 5 star hotels, 5 star dining and other types of 5 star travel.

[laconicsax]

16. Yep, I'm sure that's exactly the problem.

:eyes:

[Dangerously Amused]

9. Good thing we spent all that money on the war.

Otherwise we might be expected to help out all them starvin furrin kids.

So sad.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. God damn selfish bastards

[DesertRat]

11. k&r

[defendandprotect]

13. Yeah, but . . . you have to realize how expensive BOMBS are . . . !!!

And how needy the Pentagon is . . . !!!

[jeff30997]

15. K&R

The U.N.!They have priorities you know.Like a big useless bureaucracy to feed.

[jberryhill]

17. They have other priorities in Cambodia...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/peacekeepers_abuse_dc;_ylt=AsqShUupmsnNsXGpzEsKIQQDW7oF

Accusations of sexual abuse by U.N. peacekeepers and aid workers around the world have increased in recent years and the United Nations is investigating claims against its soldiers in hotspots such as Haiti, Liberia, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[dipsydoodle]

18. K & R

.

[Stuart G]

19. K & R ..Yes, keep this one kicked for the world's children.

[bdamomma]

21. kick

[Stuart G]

22. Again..

How can a country as wealthy as ours, not help...hell we are not even helping our own..

Sad indeed.

[Joe Chi Minh]

23. K&R

[Stuart G]

25. So, how long do we need to keep trying..

to help the children of this stupid selfish world?.
.Hard to figure out that we need to take care of our future. What else is there to say?

[Sunnyshine]

26. Sad, because children look to us able minded adults for help and protection.

Here is a nice place to start learning of how to address the issue of global poverty. http://www.povertylab.org/research/Education%20MDGs.pdf

[Stuart G]

27. Tonite, in the U.S. and around the world, millions of kids are hungry, right now...

Think about it.