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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 649
Urging the President to continue efforts to support programs and activities
that provide food to the needy and school-age children in developing countries.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 24, 2000
Mr. HALL of Ohio (for himself, Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. MCGOVERN, and Ms.
KAPTUR) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on International Relations
RESOLUTION
Urging the President to continue efforts to support programs
and activities that provide food to the needy and school-
age children in developing countries.
Resolved,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Global School
Meals and Women and Children Nutrition Resolution of
2000’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
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(1) There are an estimated 790,000,000 chron-
ically hungry people in the world, of which
300,000,000 are children.
(2) Each of the approximately 2,000,000,000
children in the world should have the right to sur-
vival, health, education, and protection from exploi-
tation and abuse of all kinds.
(3) All of society is responsible to ensure that
the right to education be realized for all children and
all adolescents.
(4) According to the United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF), in sub-Saharan Africa as well as
all over the world, HIV/AIDS preys on the young,
poor, and powerless, and on girls and women in par-
ticular. While educated individuals have access to
the knowledge needed to protect themselves from
HIV/AIDS, the life-saving information is not finding
its way to those with little or no education.
(5) It is in the early years of childhood when
a child is most likely to be scarred and handicapped
for life by malnutrition.
(6) Numerous studies show the importance of
nutritious school meals and the correlation between
improved dietary status and enhanced school per-
formance.
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(7) Studies show that a higher percentage of
children attend school and remain through gradua-
tion when meals are provided.
(8) There is a vital need for the international
community to create mechanisms to ensure the pro-
tection and realization of children, so that children
everywhere may benefit from renewed efforts to en-
sure the fullest achievement of their rights to edu-
cation, nutrition, and a basic standard of living for
their protection when they are threatened by vio-
lence, abuse and exploitation.
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY.
The House of Representatives—
(1) commends Ambassador George McGovern
and former Senator Robert Dole for their bipartisan
endorsement and leadership in promoting a world-
wide school meals program and for their remarks at
the May 2000 National Nutrition Summit at which
they jointly called on the United States Government
to lead the world in providing meals in school set-
tings for the more than 300,000,000 hungry chil-
dren in developing countries; and
(2) urges the President—
(A)(i) to continue efforts to support pro-
grams and activities that provide food to the
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needy and school-age children in developing
countries, including efforts under the Global
Food and Education Initiative announced by
the President in July 2000 at the G–8 summit
meeting in Okinawa, Japan; and
(ii) to ensure that the appropriate offices
within the Department of Agriculture and the
United States Agency for International Devel-
opment have an adequate number of personnel
in order to carry out, monitor, and evaluate the
Global Food and Education Initiative; and
(B) to continue to lead in organizing a
worldwide school meals program, as called for
by Ambassador George McGovern and former
Senator Robert Dole, and a supplementary
feeding program for pregnant and nursing
women and their children under the age of 5
similar to the special supplemental nutrition
program for women, infants, and children under
section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966
(42 U.S.C. 1786), including transmitting to the
Congress a request for appropriate legislation
to authorize such programs and to provide suf-
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ficient funds for such programs for fiscal year
2002 and subsequent fiscal years.
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