{"Page URL":["https://www.appropedia.org/The_Hunger_Project"],"Page description":["The Hunger Project (THP) is an organization that started in 1977 as a response to the United Nation's first World Food conference of 1974 ([http://web.archive.org/web/20140927033938/http://www.thp.org:80/who_we_are/history source1.]). This conference sought to coordinate the ministries of agriculture across the developing world to increase food security ([http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/648301/World-Food-Council-WFC source2.]). The original mission statement of the THP was simply to eliminate global hunger. Since then the organization has expanded its mission to included education, sustainable community building, and elevating the status of women. The organization describes itself as being \"A strategic organization which has continually reinvented itself along the road to ending hunger\". THP puts particular emphasis on grass roots development programs, wherein they work directly with communities to help them achieve their goals of financial/food security. Rather than prescribing development practices, grass roots campaigns attempt to utilize indigenous knowledge and skill in the creation of their own projects ([http://web.archive.org/web/20140927033938/http://www.thp.org:80/who_we_are/history source1.]). This was emphasized by Jim Whitton, one of the organizations regional directors when he said \"A dangerous and patronizing cliché we often hear is, 'Give a man a fish and feed him for a day -- teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.' People living with chronic hunger have generations of wisdom about 'fishing' -- the problem is the barbed wire around the lake.\" ([http://www.huffingtonpost.com/e-a-hanks/jim-whitton-of-the-hunger_b_74767.html source3.]) The organization currently operates in 11 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Though originally based out of California, THP now has it's head quarters in New York City ([http://web.archive.org/web/20140927033938/http://www.thp.org:80/who_we_are/history source1.])."],"Page image":["File:The Hunger Project logo.jpg"],"Page language":["en"],"Page license":["CC-BY-SA-3.0"],"Page title":["The Hunger Project"],"Page views":[232],"Page year":["Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 00:00:00 UTC"],"Modification date":["Friday, 28-Nov-25 12:20:00 UTC"]}