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Josette Sheeran Biography

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Josette Sheeran is a notable figure born in 1954. Her professional category is currently unknown, but she has a significant influence in the fields of public management and international affairs.

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“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.”

Wells Children Faces Female Hunger

Author:Josette Sheeran

“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.”

People Ifs World Needs Children Mother Dying Baby Currents Access Vulnerable Breasts Belly Limbs Hollow Horns Famine Swollen Matchsticks Horn Of Africa

Author: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.”

Attention Focus Regard Crisis Threat Climate Climate Change International Hunger Productions Priorities Fragile Receiving Public Health Malnutrition Top Priorities Food Production

Author: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.”

Ifs Years Firsts Children Doe Two Health Thousand Damage Two Years Conception Healthcare Nutrition Adequate Irreversible Two Year Olds World Health

Author:Josette Sheeran

“This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.”

Knows Know How Health Disease Solutions Hunger Healthcare Rare Diseases

Author:Josette Sheeran

“Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.”

Children Loses Health Hunger Aids Seconds Healthcare Hiv Malaria Hiv Aids Tuberculosis

Author: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.”

People World War Jobs Fall Loses Economy Conflict Percent Safety Strikes Disaster Flood Governance Eighty Fall Back Safety Net Food Safety

Author: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.”

Humans Children Human Beings Cry Expectations Fundamentals Haunting

Author:Josette Sheeran

“Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.”

Persons Together Issues

Author:Josette Sheeran

“Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.”

Giving Moments Waiting Permission Seize The Moment

Author:Josette Sheeran

“One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.”

People Knows Inspiration Earth Motivation Morning Know How Seven Billions Cups

Author:Josette Sheeran

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Born: 1954
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Quotes: 11

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