The staged event to capture on film G8 wives feeding starving Ghanese children is said to have cost an extimated 500 000 dollars.
Its nice to see aid money used to fly in children from Ghana to eat as a part of an "exhibit" for the spouses of G-8 leaders on July 10. Not to mention the alarm I feel at children being brought in to perform for the wives on how grateful they are to be given a cup of food a week. We all know there is no way there should be poverty in this day and age in Africa, it is a controlled and staged starvation.

WFP is the UN agency criticized ... .when showing the wives of the world's leading politicians how they worked was flown poor children from Ghana to Rome to be fed with porridge. It was on 10 July as Sarah Brown, Margarita Barroso and several other wives of top politicians of the G8 countries were invited to the WFP, World Food Program, based in Rome.

WFP wanted to show the ladies what great work the organization does in the world. Therefore, was flown to a group of poor schoolchildren from Ghana to Rome especially for the event. The children would tell me how WFP is helping them. In the tents next to the swimming pool staff were presidential wives the opportunity to invite the children in the soy maize porridge WFP usually give starving. At the same time called on the majority of the agency's 1 200 employees to stay home that day.

"Due to the security precautions mandated by the Italian government and the visiting delegations, only those employees involved in the event or deemed necessary for critical operations by their managers will be permitted on the main building premises during the morning of July 10"
Steve Taravella
Chief of Internal Communications, World Food Programme
Via C.G. Viola 68,Rome, Italy 001

anonymous from fear of retaliation, asked if Josette Sheeran would similarly "parade around Food Stamp recipient in the United States," and went on to suggest that if the G-8 spouses wanted to see "needy Africans" while in Italy, they could check out the camps on Lampedusa...

UNITED NATIONS, July 7 -- During the upcoming G-8 meeting in Italy, the UN World Food Program is flying school children from Ghana to Rome for a "simulated food distribution" display for the spouses of G-8 representatives. WFP has ordered staff not involved in the display to not come to work that day. They will, however, received "special leave with full pay."

Am out early to head back to Rome to the Headquarters of the World Food Programme for a G8 spouses event on Women Saving Lives. We are met by the Executive Director Josette Sheeran who presents each of us with a red plastic feeding cup – the cup filled with food on their emergency feeding programmes at the cost of just over ₤1 a week. Many spouses are here: from Canada, EU, Japan, India, and South Africa – and today we are joined by those from Nigeria and South Korea. A group of school children from Ghana sing and talk about their experience of WFP feeding programmes, and we hear more about the links to local agriculture and building up community sustainability.

Originally posted by zazzafrazz
reply to post by tothetenthpower

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As for the wives, I cant believe they would not have been briefed, and they attened anyway?

The children did not look like the typical starving children, I am sorry but they did not. This is utter propaganda and nothing else. 500,000 could have made food for years with the proper equiptment brought in and irrigation supplied.

Originally posted by zazzafrazz
reply to post by Iamonlyhuman

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Its not just the wives stupidity.
This really is the UN. That organisation is corrupt, and useful as the league of Nations was against Hitler in 1939