The Executive Director of the World Food Program (WFP) of the UN David Bizley asked the head of Tesla and Spacex Ilona Mask six billion dollars to fight the threat of hunger and his consequences. He turned to an entrepreneur via Twitter .
Bizley noted that 42 million people were on the verge of hunger this year. “Hunger, destabilization of the situation in countries and mass migration is waiting for us if we do not answer. Ilon Mask, you just earned six billion dollars for yesterday – this is the amount that we need to prevent a disaster! Please help!”, – he wrote.
Earlier, UN Secretary-General Anthony Guterrish stated that Coronavirus pandemic drove more than 100 million people in poverty and left more than four billion people with almost no social support, health care or protection of income.
In his opinion, great inequality is observed between rich and poor countries. UN Secretary General condemned the lack of global solidarity, because of which people living in the regions affected by conflicts and in poor countries.
Earlier in the UN, they reported on the hopeless hunger in Afghanistan. The representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the UN Jens Lerke believes that to combat Afghanistan impending on the population, the international community should collect 600 million dollars.