Josette Biyo Quotes

Snow stepped forward and slapped Josette, who slapped her back. Emmaline dropped the spoon and slapped them both - she had never slapped her child, or any child, before that moment. It happened so quickly - like a scene choreographed by the Three Stooges, which was what saved it. Emmaline started crying, then Snow. The three of them clung together.

I want to cut off my hand, wept Emmaline. I never slapped you girls before.

We should each cut our hands off, wailed Snow.

Then making frybread two of us will have to stand together, you know, like each use our remaining hand, pat, pat. Josette and Snow demonstrated.

Pat, pat, how pitiful, cry-laughed Emmaline. ~ Louise Erdrich

One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people. ~ Josette Sheeran

Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together. ~ Josette Sheeran

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on. ~ Josette Sheeran

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being. ~ Josette Sheeran

With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems. ~ Josette Sheeran

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible. ~ Josette Sheeran

Her eyes snapped open and she was instantly awake, alert, and ready. "Thank you, Ensign," she said.
Kember saluted unsteadily, her face drained of blood.
"Oh, and Ensign?" Josette said, before the girl left. "That request for you to throw yourself over the side and fall straight to Hell was not a formal order. You may feel free to disregard it. ~ Robyn Bennis

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. ~ Josette Sheeran

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too. ~ Josette Sheeran

If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people. ~ Josette Sheeran

You are right," Josette said softly. "I am devoted ~ Ashley Gardner