Oxfam needs your help to stave off food crisis

Oct 30 2008 by Our Correspondent, West Lothian Courier

OXFAM’S recent appeal on the world food crisis highlights how rising food prices are hitting the world’s poorest people hardest and first.

Around 24,000 people are dying of hunger-related causes every day and according to the World Bank 119 million more throughout the world are being pushed into hunger.

We need an extra £15 million to assist those most in need, and I would like to ask your readers for their support.

The money they give will go towards our international development and humanitarian work on food and agriculture to help meet people’s immediate needs for food, cash and water and to campaign for changes to the flawed trade and agriculture policies that have left poor farmers vulnerable.

To make a donation, please go to www.oxfam.org.uk or call 0300 200 1242 or send a cheque to Oxfam World Food Crisis Appeal, 207 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4HZ.

Judith Robertson,

Head of Oxfam in Scotland,

207 Bath Street,

Glasgow, G2 4HZ