Josette Sheeran quotes

If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people. (Josette Sheeran)

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

Josette Sheeran

With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

Josette Sheeran

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

Josette Sheeran

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.

Josette Sheeran

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Josette Sheeran

I am in the hunger business; it is what we do exclusively, 24/7, and I am sorry to tell you that business is booming.

Josette Sheeran

A silent tsunami which knows no borders is sweeping the world.

Josette Sheeran

I believe we're living at a time in human history where it's just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don't know where to find a cup of food. Not only that, transforming hunger is an opportunity, but I think we have to change our mindsets. I am so honored to be here with some of the world's top innovators and thinkers. And I would like you to join with all of humanity to draw a line in the sand and say, "No more. No more are we going to accept this." And we want to tell our grandchildren that there was a terrible time in history where up to a third of the children had brains and bodies that were stunted, but that exists no more.

Josette Sheeran