The pictures of the hungry children holding up placards with the single word “Food” and another that cried out “Help,” these among many others were heart-wrenching cries of hundreds of thousands of poor people whose lives, homes, and families were wrecked by the devastating, all powerful storm to hit the Philippines last November 7. The memories will never go away and they bring home to us with sharp reminder, that food and clean water are the most basic human needs of all. In fact, this is such a powerful need that when it is unsatisfied, there are severe malnutrition, hunger, famine, starvation, and these in turn cause mass migration, civil unrest, demonstrations, revolutions, looting, robberies, wars, massacres, and the fall of governments.