Today I had a fantastic guest whose name you surely know – Raúl González, the football star of Real Madrid and Schalke 04. He is goodwill ambassador for the campaign against hunger that the European Commission leads together with the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the European Professional Football Leagues. We just launched the campaign, which aims to raise awareness of the plight of hunger and the efforts to solve it.
We will focus the campaign on the Sahel region in Africa. I told Raúl about my recent trip to Niger and Chad, where 300,000 kids die from hunger-related diseases each year. Hunger will kill even more children in 2012 as a new food crisis looms. This is why we are acting now to prevent a bigger disaster. In this effort, the help of ambassadors like Raúl, like Hristo Stoichkov, like Roberto Baggio, is indispensable. Read the full entry
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A newborn baby’s first cry has just marked a world record – the seven billionth person living on our planet was born.
We, the Commission, deliver European humanitarian aid in partnership with the world’s best respected organisations on the field. You certainly know most of them – UN agencies like the High Commissioner for Refugees, international organisations like the Red Cross, NGOs like Save the Children. This cooperation guarantees that our aid – your aid – is delivered in the most efficient and professional aid to the people who need it.
I am currently flying back to Nairobi from the remote arid lands of the pastoral clans of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, where the impact of the drought would have been far worse if not for some remarkable projects which European taxpayers are funding.
