UN food aid chief: 350m 鈥渕arching to starvation鈥�
David Beasley says aid shortage means 鈥渨e have to choose between which children eat鈥� and which don鈥檛
The outgoing chief executive of the World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley has told the 成人快手 that 350 million people around the globe are 鈥渕arching to starvation鈥�.
Speaking from the UN food aid organisation鈥檚 headquarters in Rome, Mr Beasley said that of that number, 50 million people in 50 countries were 鈥渒nocking on famine鈥檚 door鈥� and had to get food otherwise 鈥渃learly will die鈥�.
Asked by Sarah Montague how difficult decisions are made in terms of who will be fed, Mr Beasley said: 鈥淚 had somebody that said to me one day 鈥榊ou鈥檝e got the greatest job on the planet 鈥� saving the lives of millions of people every day鈥�. And I said, 鈥業 do, I really do鈥�.鈥�
鈥淏ut I want to tell you something that is going to bother you. I don鈥檛 go to bed at night thinking about the children we saved. I go to bed at night heartbroken about the children we couldn鈥檛 save.
鈥淎nd we don鈥檛 have enough money鈥� we have to choose which children eat, which children don鈥檛 eat, which children live, which children die.鈥�
鈥淲e reach the most vulnerable first. We don鈥檛 have enough money and when you think about the fact that there is $400 trillion worth of wealth on planet Earth a day, how in the name of God can we be in this situation where we don鈥檛 have enough food to feed hungry children?鈥�
Mr Beasley is stepping down after six years in the role.
