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Children eat lunch, often their only meal of the day after school in the village of Intadeyni. Food is provided by Oxfam in an effort to encourage the children to attend school, the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.

„,Ich war hungrig, und ihr habt mir zu essen gegeben‘ – Danach werden wir gerichtet“, schrieb Papst Franziskus am vergangenen Montag bei seinem Besuch in der UN-Welternährungsorganisation FAO ins Gästebuch. Das Zitat gibt ein Wort Jesu aus einer Rede über das Jüngste Gericht wider (Mt 25,35). Zuvor forderte er in einer Rede mehr Einsatz gegen Konflikte und den Klimawandel. Diese seien die Haupthürden im Kampf gegen Hunger und Migration. Es gelte das Recht jedes Menschen zu garantieren, sich nach seinen Bedürfnissen zu ernähren.

Children eat lunch, often their only meal of the day after school in the village of Intadeyni. Food is provided by Oxfam in an effort to encourage the children to attend school, the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.

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