Reminder: GREAT DECISIONS – One Week from Today!

“Famine and Food Insecurity – A Global and Local Challenge”

“Great Decisions” will meet on Monday, October 23, at 6:00 p.m. in the Walpole Town Library. Our topic for discussion is “Famine and Food Insecurity – A Global and Local Challenge.”

We will have two guest speakers, local unsung heroes whose efforts over the years to alleviate hunger and feed the home-bound are truly inspirational. The need is shocking, the volunteer hours astonishing, the ways to assist remarkably easy.  

Suggested reading is the Foreign Policy Association’s article, “Famine: a renewed threat in the 21st century” by Daniel Maxwell, available at the library or via email by contacting Jane Malmberg, Library Director: jmalmberg@walpoletownlibrary.org. Also available at the library is the Master Class on DVD, with which we will begin our meeting. (For those joining via Zoom, please note that we are unable to show the “Master Class” on Zoom, so we suggest you join the meeting at 6:20 p.m.)

The Food and Agriculture Organization (fao.org) of the United Nations has assessed the state of food security and nutrition in the world and revised its previously optimistic predictions. One in three people in the world did not have access to adequate food in 2020, that’s 30% of the world population. “The world is at a critical juncture” is the most recent U.N. report on food security and can be found at this link: https://www.fao.org/state-of-food-security-nutrition/2021/en/

All are welcome to this public forum at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, October 23, either in person in the Hubbard Meeting Room at the Walpole Town Library or via Zoom. For the Zoom link, contact Jane Malmberg in advance of the meeting and please join at 6:20 p.m.: jmalmberg@walpoletownlibrary.org.

Also, don’t forget Walpole’s annual CROP Hunger Walk this Saturday, October 21: Registration starts at 9:00 a.m. in front of the First Congregational Church, the walk begins at 9:30 a.m.