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
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
