World Hunger and Poverty

Chris Sorbi recently contacted me about his Transcontinental Humanitarian Expedition. He’s going around the world on his motorcycle to raise awareness about world hunger. He travels around on his motorcycle while also posting updates about his expedition and about hunger in general.
I love the idea! First of all, I think motorcycles are cool. More importantly, […]

I was recently contacted by a person named Abby from the World Food Programme, which is the food aid branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest humanitarian organization.
Abby informed me that this year the number of chronically hungry people will reach 1 billion and at the same time the number of internet […]

I found some cool t-shirts made by a company called Junk Food about poverty. All these shirts say “end poverty” on them. I think this is a great way to raise awareness about poverty. Check them out:
  
The first is a lady’s medium. The second is a man’s extra large. The third is available in all […]

Our t-shirt contest is now over. Congratulations to LJEsposito, ScotHTH, and Macrocompassion who will each receive a free t-shirt from the Moju Project!
Nonetheless, the discussion of how a large sum of money could be spent to alleviate poverty is valuable regardless of it being a contest. So even though the contest is over, if you […]

A nice gentleman named Gerrid from the Moju Project recently contacted me to tell me about the project. It’s simple: A portion of the proceeds from anything bought off their website goes towards saving lives. Every t-shirt they sell feeds an orphan one hot meal daily for a month in Africa.
I like the t-shirts. I […]

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 […]