Cindy McCain on her drive to fight hunger
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At the Rome headquarters of the United Nations' World Food Programme (or WFP), Cindy McCain may still be learning her way around the building, but as the agency's new executive director she needs no introduction to the mission and potential of the agency she now runs, nor one of her biggest responsibilities: raising money. "I've only been on the job 24 hours, but I know I'll spend a good portion of my time fundraising, and making sure we have the means to do what we need to do," she said.
WFP is comprised of more than 20,000 people working in 123 countries, with the ambitious, and increasingly challenging, goal of ending world hunger. But WFP tells us currently they have a quarter of the funds they need – a $17-billion gap – which is causing cutbacks.
Doane asked, "What prepares you for those sorts of decisions, to decide who can eat, who can't eat?"
