On Sunday, May 4th, I will be volunteering at Foodshare’s Walk Against Hunger. If you will be in Connecticut and could make it to the walk site in Hartford, then please do. If you want to go and volunteer with me, just tell me as soon as you can. (You can contact me by email […]
A new YouTube channel allows users to submit videos about world hunger for a contest by the United Nations World Food Programme. They call the contest Hunger Bytes. The WFP will choose 5 finalists, and the video that gets the most views will win a trip for two to a WFP hunger relief project.
I like […]
I just found an article that Kathryn McConnell wrote in October about Crop Hunger Walks in 2007.
Church World Service sponsors these walks. Like most charity walks and marathons, walkers get donations from people for walking. Of course, the walks themselves become major local events, which raises awareness about world hunger and poverty. People who hear […]
Today while at community service, I worked with a group of volunteers from Bank of America. I know they are Bank of America employees because they all wore red “Bank of America” t-shirts. They also told me so.
Perhaps only a few local Bank of America employees organized that volunteering. Of course, having employees […]
I found out about a neat website today. FreeRice.com lets you improve your vocabulary and fight world hunger at the same time. The service is both fun and free.
On the website, you try to choose the correct definition for a word. For each word you get correctly, they donate 10 grains of rice to the […]
Students from the Sociology Club at IUP dressed in ragged clothes and handed out informational flyers about poverty. The flyers included statistics from UNICEF research, such as the fact that 30,000 children die every day from hunger (more than the UN’s 18,000 estimate) and that half the world lives on less than $2 a day.
I […]
A user by the name of Firefly suggested a great idea on the Hunger and Poverty Forums. He suggests the organizing local groups of poor people into what he calls wayside communities. These local groups would help empower poor people and fight poverty in the way that Alcoholics Anonymous helps empower alcoholics and fight alcohol […]
Any sane person would prefer to live in a world without poverty than a world with poverty. We prefer to live by each other’s happiness, not each other’s pain. Of course, this makes it odd that poverty continues. What can you do to fight poverty? Most importantly, talk about it!
We cannot solve a problem without […]
Larry Esposito recently pointed me towards LIFT on his Morning Prayer thread in the Hunger & Poverty Forums.
‘Lift’ stands for ‘Leading India’s Future Today.’ The program provides “leadership excellence training” to poor but extremely talented children in India.
By creating relationships with over 100 villages, LIFT can find the most capable leaders within the groups of […]
Somebody recently informed me about a great program run by Campbell Soup Company and The United States Postal Service, which facilitates the donation of food by American families to American family.
35,000,000 Americans are at risk of hunger.
Get involved on May 12th!
www.HelpStampOutHunger.com
On May 12th, Campbell Soup Company and The United States Postal Service are partnering once […]