Billionaires whose wealth has soared during the coronavirus pandemic should stump up to provide emergency aid to the record numbers of people facing starvation, the head of a US charity supporting the World Food Programme has said. “Imagine one person to stand up and say they have heard the call, they will donate $5bn,” he told the Guardian. Barron Segar declined to name any individual billionaires who should contribute to aid funding. Photograph: David Buchan/REX/ShutterstockThe World Food Programme, which was established in 1961, was awarded the Nobel peace prize last year in recognition of its decades of work relieving hunger. Google said it had provided $800m to small businesses, as well as $100m towards Covid relief from its philanthropy arm, Google.org.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2021 06:56 UTC