Cathleen Falsani - The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World

Jenny Dyer would like to offer deep gratitude to the Eleanor Crook Foundations executive director, Will Moore, for his vision and support to create this book. We appreciate your trust in us to craft this unique compilation of essays that we hope will play a role in ushering in the end of hunger during our lifetime.

Special thanks to Senator-Doctor Bill Frist for his leadership and mentorship at Hope Through Healing Hands. His experience, passion, and leadership in the global health arena has been a beacon for all working to end extreme poverty and disease around the world.

Many thanks to the Hope Through Healing Hands team, Jen St. Clair, Amy Fogleman, and Jane Lynch Crain, who provided immense support by organizing, managing, and editing this book.

Thank you to everyone at InterVarsity Press for believing in this important project.

Finally, with much appreciation and love to my husband, John, and my two sons, Rhys and Oliver.

Cathleen Falsani would like to thank her husband, Maurice, and son, Vasco, for their support, patience, and collaboration during the creation of this important book.

To Casey Cora, a prince among men by any measure: my deep thanks for your help with this project and for being such an extraordinarily loving member of our tribe.

A special word of thanks to B, Gayle, Jamie, Rudo, Roxy, Tom, Abby, and all my friends, mentors, and coconspirators at the ONE Campaign for your persistence, resistance, and insistence in working on behalf of the worlds poor.

Thank you to Botherjohn Spoon, Theresa Lamer, and AJ in Bombay Beach; to Dave Day, Pastor Saul Solano Guzman, and Esther Genaro Pacheco from Growers First; and a special gracias, querida, to Carolyn Reyes for mobile translation and transcription services (rendered at thirty-five thousand feet and on deadline).

Dhanyavad to Rupa, David, and Gautham Rai, and the whole Rai family in Kathmandu.

A deep bow of gratitude to Ethan McCarthy, Cindy Bunch, Helen Lee, Andrew Bronson, and the entire crew at InterVarsity Press for their full-throated, unequivocal support for this project from the moment we introduced it to them. And to Sally Sampson CraftIm so glad we ran into each other at the airport. Thank you for taking the project to your wonderful IVP colleagues.

Once more with feeling, to my many generous friends who answered the call when they got it and donated their time, effort, words, and stories to this bookyou amaze me, and we could not have done this without you. Thank you. Zikomo kwambiri.

And to Linda Richardson, for giving me wings all those years ago.

O ur goal for this book has been to both educate and activate. We hope to have informed you well with some of the leading experts on hunger, famine, and nutrition, and in turn, we are optimistic you are ready to do something, get involved, and join the campaign to end hunger. For Christians and people of faith, the first thing we recommend is consideration of participation through prayer and meditation. We find that this quiet reflection gives clarity and wisdom for each person to find how God might be leading them to use their special gifts, talents, and skill sets to affect some of the worlds greatest challenges.

Secondly, we invite you to donate. We welcome your time and your resources. There are wonderful nonprofit organizations tackling hunger on the front lines of poverty, both in the United States and around the world. Please see the following short list of those with whom we work and with whom we recommend you consider getting involved.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we welcome you to advocate on behalf of those living with hunger. Youve read the book. Youve heard the stories. We know what makes a difference and how to make a difference, but we need your voice. Every single person has the power to affect the lives of millions. Advocacy is going upstream to tackle the roots of the problem, through funding infrastructure and systems designed to address hunger in smart, efficient, and scientific ways, for instance, during the first one thousand days of a childs life.