Nothing Kills Like Hunger

1 State Street,New Haven CT 06511

02 June, 2022

Description

Conflict is now the main driver of hunger around the world, preying on families who are at their most vulnerable. In cooperation with Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University and its Famine Summer School: Heroes of Black '47, the McGivney Center is hosting this lecture centered on global food insecurity and humanitarian response by Mr. Kirk Prichard, Vice President of Programs for the U.S. affiliate of Concern Worldwide. Kirk manages all U.S.-funded programs and policy, a portfolio totaling more than $60 million, reaching over 8 million persons. Prichard’s experience includes collaboration with 21 countries with humanitarian deployments in Afghanistan from 2008-2009; the 2011 Horn of Africa food security crisis; Typhoon Haiyan (2013) in the Philippines; the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal; the Syria Crisis (Lebanon); the 2016 Burundi emergency; 2017 Somalia food security crisis; and Ukraine emergency. Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute fosters a deeper understanding of the Great Hunger of Ireland and its causes and consequences through a strategic program of lectures, conferences, course offerings and publications.