Design 21: Social Design Network

Some of daytime television’s biggest stars—Montel Williams, Anthony Geary, Kelly Monaco, Susan Lucci and many more—were recently in Kenya where they participated in a compelling real-life drama. As part of “Daytime Gives Back,” these celebrities partnered with Feed The Children to bring critical relief to Kenyans struggling with chronic poverty, HIV/AIDS and pervasive child abandonment.

In Kenya, a child is abandoned every ten minutes. But these celebrities helped by personally rescuing babies who had been abandoned or who were in need of immediate, life-saving care.

Actor Erik Estrada and Frances Jones, founder of the Abandoned Baby Center, were able to rescue three precious babies from imminent danger. Montel Williams and All My Children star Susan Lucci were also able to save a helpless baby from a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya. The Abandoned Baby Center in Nairobi, Kenya, provides nourishing food, critical medical care and a loving home to these babies.

Feed The Children founder, Larry Jones, also just got back from Kenya. You can follow Larry on Twitter to learn more about what Feed The Children is doing to bring about meaningful change in Kenya—including critical assistance for its smallest and most vulnerable citizens.

Rescuing babies from the brink of death, equipping impoverished students for success, transforming whole communities through the gift of life-sustaining goats—it is all there for you to read about! Fact really is more interesting—and ins...

This week, the G-8 leaders including President Obama have been meeting in Italy to discuss a range of issues including climate change and the world economic crisis. Today, leaders will turn their energies to the issue of global hunger and are expected to unveil a new “food security initiative” pledging $12 billion from their economies to help spur agriculture development activities over the next 3 years in Africa and other hunger prone regions. This is an important initiative that Feed The Children strongly supports. To make long term progress against hunger, developing nations need help in their efforts to advance their agricultural sector in order to feed their own people.

News coverage of the rising problem of hunger has been unavoidable of late: the United Nations just made a stunning announcement that more than 1 billion people in the world are hungry. Last week, the USDA reported an 11% increase in the number of people experiencing food insecurity in 70 of the world’s poorest nations. All this is happening as food prices rise and poor nations, often dependent on food imports, find it harder to feed their own people – and its impoverished children that often suffer the most.

This week, I head to Kenya - one of those countries devastated by years of hunger, famine, drought, political strife, and HIV/AIDS. Joining me on this trip will be celebrities, stars of daytime television, helping Feed The Children to bring public attention to the issue of childhoo...

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