| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/07/11, 11:55 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The civil war in Syria—now dragging into its third year—has created a humanitarian crisis of nightmarish proportions. Yet the woman in charge
of getting food rations inside the beleaguered country remains,
improbably, optimistic. It’s one of Ertharin Cousin’s most winning
qualities, and the one cited by Hillary Clinton when the former U.S.
Secretary of State pressed the United Nations to appoint Cousin to lead
its World Food Program (WFP) last year.
While Cousin says her initiation as head of the world’s largest hunger aid organization wasn’t exactly baptism by fire, she admits that
confronting the largest refugee crisis in the history of the Middle East
certainly tested her skills. Now, she’s facing a new challenge:
Convincing cash-strapped Western donors to keep giving money to feed the
burgeoning number of Syrians displaced by the violence.
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