College of Human Sciences Director of External Relations Harriett Giles and graduate student David Baaz outlined efforts on the AU campus to advocate for worldwide hunger security. Giles, who has been at Auburn University since 1983 in the Human Development and Family Studies Department, noted that she received a Rotary Fellowship to study in England in 1977.

About two years ago, AU was asked to be the lead academic partner for the United Nation’s World Food Program. This is the largest humanitarian agency in the world and effects 90 million people in 82 countries. The War On Hunger model creates a vision of supplying clean water, providing health care and supplying food/nourishment to areas of the world in need. The program model provides local sustainability using natural resources, education and social responsibility, primarily, to third-world countries. The program also encourages other land-grant universities to join by soliciting faculty to make students aware of the world’s hunger problem as well as making communities and politicians aware of the worldwide challenge.

Baaz gave a student’s prospective of the challenge. He is concerned for the 852 million people that go to sleep hungry each day throughout the world. He has become involved in the hunger campaign by working at the Food Bank and fundraising.

Giles (second from left) and Baaz (third from left) with Club President Debbie Shaw (left) and program host Carolyn Ellis (right)