{"id":6334,"date":"2023-10-21T19:06:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2023-10-21T19:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T18:06:34","slug":"speaker-meeting-9th-october-2023-the-hunger-project-rebecca-burgess-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/2023\/10\/21\/speaker-meeting-9th-october-2023-the-hunger-project-rebecca-burgess-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Meeting 9th October 2023: the Hunger Project \u2013 Rebecca Burgess CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rebecca came to talk to us about the Hunger Project which is part of a global charity founded in the 70’s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rebecca said that it will take another 132 years for women to reach gender parity and that 60% of the world population feeling hunger are women and girls.\u00a0 This is not helped by the fact that 12 million girls are married as children under the age of 15.<\/p>\n

The Hunger Project works with communities to realise their own future, free from hunger and poverty.\u00a0 They have 13 Programmes across Africa, South Asia and Latin America. All adapted to meet local challenges and opportunities, focusing on empowering people to lift themselves out of hunger. To date 11.9m people have been helped.\u00a0 Hunger is caused by various things such as gender issues.<\/p>\n

The charity has three essential pillars:<\/p>\n