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Fighting Hunger

Bertini visits kids getting food aid in Ethiopia. A terrible drought had ruined crops there.

Catherine Bertini has 90 million mouths to feed. She has traveled the world as chief of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) for nine years. She is responsible for raising money and "making sure food gets to the right people at the right time." She is the first American and the first woman to head the WFP. The WFP brings food to people in very poor nations.

Bertini grew up in Cortland, New York, but now lives in Rome, Italy, where the WFP is based.

One of her goals has been to make certain that hungry women and children get fed. Bertini says she has the job of a lifetime. "In how many places," she asks, "do you get to improve the lives of millions of people?"

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