World Food Day broadcast scheduled for Friday
A teleconference broadcast at Chadron State College and around the world will examine the burden of the the economic catastrophe on the world's poor and explore solutions to the problem.
The 26th World Food Day Teleconference will be shown live Friday, Oct. 16, in the Scottsbluff Room of the Student Center from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The public is invited to join CSC students as three experts discuss the the world economy. The three panelists are Max Finberg, director of the Department of Agriculture Center for Fath-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, who served as director of the Alliance to End Hunger, and Joy Phumaphi, World Food Bank vice president and head of the bank's Human Development Network. The host will be Ray Suarez, senior correspondent of the Jim Lehrer PBS NewsHour.
The World Food Day teleconference, which is sponsored by a coalition of 450 private voluntary organizations under the name U.S. National Committee for World Food Day, is aired from the National Press Club studios at Washington, D.C.
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