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Volunteer Agency Says Israel Technology
Can Save the World's Needy From Hunger
NEW YORK (JTA) — Is-
raeli technology could save
the world from hunger by
turning deserts into farm-
land, according to Steve
West, co-director of an
organization called "Impact
on Hunger," which he and
Stephen Deutsch co-
founded five years ago.
West, in an interview
with the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency, said that
Israeli technology "is in the
forefront for solution-
seekers to the problem of
hunger in the world. Tech-
niques used by Israel to turn
desert into farmland are liv-
ing examples for those con-
cerned with growing things
in naturally hostile
environments."
West said that "methods
pioneered in Israel, such as
hydroponics, water drip sys-
tem, and `miracle' fish'
which mature in eight
weeks through genetic a worldwide basis.
engineering, are being
Although `:Impact on
taught and should be taught Hunger" is non-sectarian,
on a more widespread scale working with all religious
to all who are committed to and racial groups, West said
saving the lives of the 15 to that when- he resigned from
20 million people — about a top executive position
80 percent of whom are after 18 years to devote
children — who die from himself to what for three
hunger all over the world years was purely voluntary
each year."
work, he was very much
West said that `Impact guided by the Jewish ethi-
on Hunger" is a cal principles handed down
volunteer-based organ- by his parents who had both
ization with a small staff been active Bnai Brith
of 12 people who create leaders in New Hyde Park,
projects designed to "in- Long Island.
form, inspire and involve
Those principles, he said,
people" in ending hunger were that charity should be
- in the world.
given anonymously, effec-
The concrete programs of tively, and aimed at self-
the organization he and help. Deutsch, the son of two
Deutsch head are now fi- Hungarian Holocaust sur-
nanced through grants from vivors., said he feels the
companies and large found- same way.
ations and are based on the
The basic premise of
premise that death from the "Impact" programs is
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commitment is what
makes the impact and
change possible.
This approach is the core
of one-week educational
"packages" which have be-
come part of the New York
City school system's cur-
riculum and will this year
be extended to San Fran-
cisco, Washington, D.C.,
Long Island and other
school systems across the
country, West said.
Youngsters in the course
are taken through three
stages: awareness or con-
sciousness - raising; in-
depth education on tech-
niques; and creation of an
action group.
West cited as examples,
food collection for local cen-
ters dealing with the needy,
upgrading the nutritional
quality of food in local
cafeterias, fund raising for
events the proceeds of which
go to such organizations as
Oxfam, UNICEF and other
groups all over the world
working toward ending
hunger.
Jerry Goldman, who
became a staff member of
"Impact" after one year
of full-time volunteer
work, is program direc-
tor for "Superstars for
Ending Hunger," an
"Impact" staff action
group.
On Aug. 14, "we collected
five tons of canned food —
the largest collection ever
at the New York Mets-
Chicago Cubs baseball
game at Shea Stadium to be
distributed to food kitchens
around the city," he told the
JTA.
This collection was the
result of "three weeks of an-
nouncements on radio and
TV and the active participa-
tion of baseball stars," he
said.
Goldman's televised ap-
peal at the game itself was
followed by Odetta, the in-
ternationally famed black
folk singer, who sang the
national anthem, and the
spectacular arrival of 35
Harvard students who had
bicycled two months from
Seattle to New York to col-
lect $700,000 for the self-
help programs of Oxfam —
which are largely designed
on Israeli and American
- technological know-how.
This fall, a single "Im-
pact on Hunger" volun-
teer will walk across Af-
rica, providing practical
information to hungry
communities and his
person-to-person
encounters will be fol-
lowed in the U.S. by TV
coverage, Goldman said.
Housing Project
TORONTO (JTA) — A
130-unit non-profit housing
project, Bnai Brith Upper
Canada Lodge, has been
opened in suburban North
York to assist senior citi-
zens in finding suitable and
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