"[...] go start a direct debit for 1/2% of you salary to a charity of your choice."
Much of the current starvation is down to political factors: poor governance; corruption; ideological wars; religious opposition to birth control; urbanisation. External food aid often undermines the local agricultural economy and adds to the problems.
Even in the UK a prospective leader of the Tory party has praised the need for local food banks as being a good thing. As a millionaire he can afford his religiously mandated large brood. Our local voluntary food bank is under increasing pressure - but what is surprising is that they say most of the needy families have 4+ children. Those children should not be allowed to suffer - but their parents seem to have been irresponsible.
Bill and Melissa Gates are at least focussing on reducing disease. Choose your charities with great care.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
