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July 2, 2007, 12:50 PM ET
Antihunger Expert Notes "Caste System" in Relief Efforts
In a question-and-answer session, the recent recipient of the food industry’s highest honor for humanitarian work expressed provocative views about fighting hunger, including the belief that people overemphasize the neediness of children, reports The Washington Post.
Robert Egger, who founded the D.C. Central Kitchen, told the newspaper he was dismayed that he often has to fight other philanthropic groups for money instead working with them. He said more elderly people go hungry every day than children because the elderly are near the bottom of the charity world’s “caste system.”
Mr. Egger recently won the Duke Zeibert Capital Achievement Award for his efforts to feed the hungry.
Read an opinion piece by Mr. Egger in The Chronicle on the need of charities to band together.
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