On location in the South Sudan, in a very isolated place called Majom Kor, Dan Patterson says that they unloaded the Sacks of Hope, and it strikes him how much those fifteen pound bags will do. If you teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime, Dan says, but it doesn’t apply here because these people are coming back from someplace else that is even worse, and all of them need help and assistance. Right now, he says, the Sacks of Hope are the good that is being done and helping these people. (1:17)

 

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Chief UN Correspondent Dan Patterson will attend the UN briefing at noon, while Chief Pentagon Correspondent Meredith Mackenzie will attend a Pentagon briefing this afternoon about a chemical weapons response test for Arlington County and the Pentagon.

The Talk Radio News Service’s Washington Bureau is also covering a discussion on the “Human Rights Situation in Syria” at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), as well as a discussion on “The Future of Jerusalem: Israeli and Palestinian Perspectives” at the George Washington University. And lastly, we are also covering a discussion on “Pakistan’s elections: Observations from the Field” at the Center of National Policy