A philanthropist’s solution to helping economic refugees from the Northern Triangle
Do you ever wonder why migrants embark on what are often perilous journeys, leaving everything behind, to an uncertain future in the U.S. or other developed countries?
Many people assume that the food crisis was caused by a combination of the pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine. While these are important factors, they only aggravate an underlying problem.
War is expensive. Bloody and expensive. According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, conflict violence cost the world $519 billion in economic activity in 2019 alone.
If I were on a desert island and offered only one bag of groceries, it would include canned tomatoes, pasta, olive oil and a couple of jars of peanut butter (no bread needed).
