United States
EducationUnited States Committee for FAO - Connect young people fighting hunger
Address
United States Committee for FAO
P.O. Box 33145
Washington,
DC
20033-3145
United States
1-800-252-0455
Mission
The United States Committee for FAO is dedicated to helping people throughout the world to feed themselves. Its purpose is two-fold. First, to provide financial assistance for projects to aid the rural poor in developing nations, particularly projects to increase food production and access to food. Second, to raise public awareness in the United States of the need to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living and to improve agricultural productivity in developing nations.
Programs
The Growing Connection: Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and across the United States. Expansion to Haiti and Jamaica pending. Support to tsunami relief and small-scale farming worldwide via Telefood projects of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.
United States Committee for FAO's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Vegetable Gardens & Internet for Indian Youth |
Personnel Overview
Robert Patterson - Senior Liaison Officer, FAO/UN
Robert Patterson is Senior Liaison Officer in the Washington Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). He coordinates FAO’s activities with the private and non-governmental sectors, giving priority to community-based action in sustainable, people-driven local and global solutions to hunger and poverty.
Amy McMillen - Program Officer
Amy McMillen is a Liaison and Project Coordinator for The Growing Connection Project at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She has been working with The Growing Connection since its inception in 2003, coordinating individuals, the private sector and non-governmental organizations to champion community-based actions to sustainable solutions to poverty and hunger
Personnel Statistics
Robert Reddick, President
Founded in 1997
Employees: 0
Volunteers: 12
