CHC Co-Chair Tony Hall with anti-hunger leaders preparing a vegetable
garden at a senior citizens complex in Washington, DC.
1999
The U.S. Congress provided funds to support the Mickey Leland-Bill Emerson Hunger Fellows
Program. The National Program graduated its sixth
class of fellows. The Congressional Hunger Center began developing the
international counterpart of the National Fellows program, launched in the summer of 2001. The new program
is called the Mickey Leland-Bill Emerson International Fellows
Program.
In 1999, CHC also co-sponsored workshops and conferences exploring several international humanitarian issues:
the role of basic education for refugee children;
psychosocial services for displaced persons;
early warning of complex humanitarian emergencies; and
improving the nutritional quality of relief diets.
