The Interpreter, and such.
I went to see The Interpreter last night despite the review at The New York Times. That guy hardly ever gets it right anyway. I thought the movie reverently displayed the relationship between international/domestic politics (depending on your point of view) and the individuals whose lives those politics govern. And of course all the other stuff in between was great too…but that’s beside the point of this entry.
The movie made me very curious for international politics - thus I spent much of my night perusing the pages of the United Nations Website. One thing at a time - I found this to be of incredible interest: The World Food Programme.
So says the site, “Among the Millennium Development Goals which the United Nations has set for the 21st century, halving the proportion of hungry people in the world is top of the list. ”
An excellent place to learn about the WFP is at the Food-Force website; download and play their game. It gives a rather detailed overview (ironic, but appropriate) of the process the WFP goes through when sending aid to a Hunger Spot.
Filed by ryanroth at April 27th, 2005 under Geke