People Fed

Now what goes along with that is that each individual can count, because the place to create the will the place to create that commitment the place to create the context the end of hunger as an idea whose time has come is within one's self and then to share that opportunity with others that allows me to make a difference my personal commitment makes a difference then another part of the project see everybody thinks that if you haven't told people what to do, then you didn't tell them anything useful. You got to give people answers. And I loved what you said before about the the the the true cheating that giving people answers is. What the hunger project asks people to do is out of their out of their commitment out of the context of the end of hunger to decide for themselves to work it out for themselves. What will you do that will be consistent with the end of hunger on the planet. Work it out for yourself. Okay. So the truth of the matter is that the media has been very supportive about it. There was one article in one place in which the hunger project was really very severely attacked. we feel that the attack not feel the attack was in fact totally unwarranted. I mean the facts are that EST literally contributed the money the energy and the people to create the hunger project. There are 225,000 graduates of the S training. There are 800,000 participants in the hunger project. So rather than the s rather than the hunger project being an enrollment ground for the s training is truly the other way around. The programs financed the hunger project. Now the hunger project now has a life of its own. It's uh much larger than the training. it's independent from the training but the training truly made the contribution to start it. But I have to tell you that there's another side to the story. And the other side of the story is that at least in the kind of society we've got now, I think it's really incumbent on some area of the media to take shots at everything. Because I think this is the way it works, Michael. I think that the way it works is you take a shot at something, if it's accurate, it sticks. If it's not accurate, it falls off. In the case of the Hunger Project, the shot that this particular periodical took at the Hunger Project has merely fallen off. Those things which have some legitimacy stick, those things which are fully legitimate may be pierced the heart. And no question about the fact that the media has protected lots of people from lots of nonsense. But in the process, there's plenty of heat. And if you want to make a difference in life, at least in this society, you need to be able to tolerate heat, right? Goes to the territory. Yes. We're talking with Warner, we were talking about the hunger project, and there was something else you wanted to say about the hunger project. Yes. I just wanted to uh to point out that obviously uh what will end hunger is what we do. the purpose of the hunger project is to create a context in which what we do can be effective. And there's a very good example in the uh situation in Cambodia. What was called for there was a very immediate and large effective response by our government uh which had not been forthcoming for instance in the situation in Nicaragua. What happened was that the hunger project because of its uh support of all hunger projects all hunger organizations was able to affect a coalition of every practically every hunger organization in the country. They elected father Hesburg and Jim Grant who will be the new chairman of UNICEF to be their spokespeople. They went to the president, but they were now a large enough voice to to get the president to move swiftly and effectively so that our government had an intelligent and an effective response to the situation in Cambodia. In addition to which we were able to uh provide uh advertisements to raise money for those few agencies which were being effective in Cambodian who had been allowed in and as a result of 10 newspaper ads which we put in the major newspapers around the country, other newspapers picked those ads up and ran them for free and easily a half a million dollars was generated. ated from those advertisements for those agencies by the Hunger Project really out of a kind of spontaneous motion which the Hunger Project kind of started. Now the truth of the matter is that you know we don't kind of go around wearing that on our sleeve because our intention was to to be effective and to make a contribution rather than to get some credit out of it. And and what's I just must put this in, Michael, that I want to encourage people to take a look at what's going on in Cambodia, not as an isolated case that will be over in a couple of months, but something which will require our intelligent response over perhaps a few years and in addition to whic