Famine relief – History of Sorts

January 28, 2025

“We Are the World: A Song of Unity and Humanity”

“We Are the World” is a charity single recorded in 1985 by the supergroup USA for Africa. Written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian, the song was released as part of the album We Are the World. Selling over 20 million physical copies, it ranks as the

Hunger Winter and Operation Manna & Chowhound

One might be forgiven for thinking the photo above is from a very impoverished country, but it is not. In fact, it is a photo of a family living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Even during World War II, the Netherlands was a country of wealth—albeit not all the wealth was

Operations Manna and Chowhound

During the winter of 1944/45 approximately 20,000 citizens died in the so-called Hunger Winter, the Dutch famine. A German blockade cut off food and fuel shipments from farm towns. Some 4.5 million were affected and survived thanks to soup kitchens. As the war was wrapping up in April of 1945, in an effort to alleviate