We are working in some of the most remote and inaccessible locations in the world in Sudan, and it can take four to five months to translate a donation into food assistance on the ground.

While the latest donation from the United States - which brings their total contribution to $114 million - is extremely welcome, we are urgently appealing for more cash so that we can continue to move food stocks into place in Sudan, in advance of the rainy season.

Ration cuts are a last resort, but we simply have no alternative.

We are looking more and more like those Third World countries with a Grand Canyon between the haves and have-nots and a disappearing middle class.

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will,

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.