“We need to
be reminded that food discarded is, in a certain sense, stolen from the table
of poor and the starving.” Pope Francis said. In the first papal visit to the
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Pope Francis gave his full support
to the goal of eradicating hunger and paid tribute to the organization’s staff,
including those who had lost their lives at work.
“Do not grow weary or let problems
dissuade you,” the Pope told WFP’s governing Executive Board and staff at WFP
headquarters in Rome. “In implementing this urgent priority of 'Zero Hunger,' I
assure you of our complete support and encouragement.”
He called for member states of the UN
to decisively increase their commitment to cooperate with WFP. "Without
faces and stories, human lives become statistics and we run the risk of
bureaucratizing the suffering of others. Bureaucracies shuffle papers,
compassion deals with human beings,” he added.
The Pope's visit shone a
powerful and timely spotlight on the urgent need to end hunger, which affects 1
in 9 people on the planet. It came in the first year of work towards the
landmark Sustainable Development Goals. At the core of WFP’s work is a drive to
achieve Goal 2, Zero Hunger, by the year 2030.
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