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Child hunger is preventable and predictable, yet 19 million children worldwide face death as a result of a lack of food and adequate nutrition. This phenomenon has been exacerbated by the food price crisis. However, the political response to that crisis has, to date, failed to prioritise the provision of programmes to address life threatening child hunger (severe acute malnutrition).

Analysis of severe acute malnutrition indicates that £100 million in new, non-emergency International Development aid; is the sum required to treat children in key priority UK aid-targeted countries. Such action would be a positive development in the government’s response to the current food crisis. It would also place the UK government in a leadership role in relation to responding to children’s food and nutrition needs in some of the world’s poorest countries. This petition will close within 8 months to ensure government has time to take decisive action before World Food Day 2009 (October 16th 2009).

Current signatories

Natalie Duck, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Lynne Richards
• Ivan Clarke
• Ruth Golding
• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/tombaker/)
• LISA WRIGHT
• Anthony M Davies
• Robert Cicero
• Christine Kahmann
• Pauline Llorca
• sarah lewis
• Rebecca Low
• Åsa Andersson
• Shane Lake
• Ian Herne
• Lakh Bhakar
• Zak Waters
• Rachel Daniels
• Rosalind Eccles
• Sejal Sukhadwala (food journalist)
• C. Braga
• Anne Rowley
• Baljinder Heer
• Emily Baron
• Michael Welsh
• Lauren Seager
• Zoe Renton
• Rebecca Fauth
• Aoife Allen
• Deepa Pagarani
• geraldine lowe
• Ian Mcfarlane
• Louisa Kelly
• Julie Dorrell
• Victoria Wright
• Tazeen Khatib
• Mike Bright
• Arline Lawrie
• Mark Rowney
• Lucy Emmerson
• Victoria Cullen
• Gemma Louise Bone
• Sarah Kent
• Tina Henderson
• Anna Mason
• Geraldine Drew
• Peter Ogden
• Elizabeth Barling
• Tanvi Desai
• Susan Thurstans
• Aimee Rowlands
• Robert Gepp
• David Leahy
• Anna Keller
• Jo Popplewell
• Marcal Trigo Chinestra
• Paula Puentes
• Bhavesh Patel
• Dennis Freancis Gepp
• christine rush
• Barbara Travani
• Philip Atkinson
• Rachel Owolabi
• Daniel Ostermeyer
• Alondra Gonzalez H
• Regina Saffa
• Andrew Gepp
• Stephen Devereux
• Ernest Rukangira
• Kirsty Buchanan
• tanmhiz fatimah
• Sarah Hodgson
• Hassan Nagdee
• kate ogden
• Sarah Penfold
• Jess Blijkers
• Ines Vieira Ferraz
• Monica Duck
• Angelina Lawrence
• Davina Boakye
• Elizabeth Jamieson
• Henri Leturque
• Charlene Bangwe
• Frank Broughton
• Milair Ryalls
• Pauline MacDonald
• M. AitAissa
• GOMEZ Juan
• Jackie Inskip
• Nick Inskip
• eileen johnson
• joe mcdonald
• Rose Sheila Dagoo
• Anne Broni
• M Tame
• Anna Heizmann
• M Pesold
• Heidi Drummond
• jonathan buckley
• Natasha Farrant
• Clare Tyson
• Kate Taylor
• Antony Wilson
• samuel Hauenstein - Swan
• Natasha Kehoe
• Harry Lax
• Nita Lax
• Clifford Poleon
• Mario Stephan
• Alexandra Cogan
• Cavan Law
• Nahida Akhtar
• Frances devlin
• Jennifer Organ
• stephen campbell
• Louise Richards
• Kate Ribet
• Anit Saxena
• Davis Griffiths
• Philip Gould
• Jane George
• Elizabeth Marsden
• Ommar Younis
• ghazala choudhry
• Patricia Widley
• Asha Abkey
• Shane Devlin
• Derani King
• Catherine Allum
• lisa jane waller
• saeed natha
• Shafaqat Mohammed
• Hawa Loonat
• Eleanor Reader
• Helen Wazwaz
• Hinnah Rafique
• John Barton
• Tafazzul Hussain
• leon aarts
• Charles Campion
• Stephanie Chiswell
• Clare Sheridan
• Sarah Carlsen
• Dean Morgenthal
• Carlos Brando
• Sally Tillett
• David Henry Gee
• Sharmila Sengupta
• jade anson
• laura groves
• jessica haydon
• Philippa Smith
• EMMA PARKES-MCQUEEN
• Misa Gott
• Pamela Johnson
• Murtaza Ramzan
• Godfrey James HARRISON
• Neil McDougall
• Nicola Leahy
• Bernardette Cichon
• Milo Douglas
• karen heaney
• huma sibtain
• Salma Khan
• amy hill
• Gale Cockburn
• Lisa Paton
• Anne Jillings
• Essie Parks
• nassif springer
• Danielle Cowan
• Noria Deghmous
• Thomas Fishwick
• Benjamin Harrop
• M Kemenes
• Charlotte Gal
• Hoda Hussein
• Paul Burgess
• Elisabeth Tapsfield
• Neil Metcalfe
• Sahadat Hossain
• natasha mitchell
• Harriet Swann
• Catherine Dulieu
• Martin Bewick
• Michelle Taylor
• Sean Kelly
• Jacek Luc
• Tomasz Mackowiak
• Tricia McLaughlin
• John Dolan
• Gil Singh
• Tom Tamplin
• stephen Graham
• V Ward