Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week occurs November 16 through November 24.
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Hunger Games – A Walmart alert!
Hunger Games – A Walmart alert! … The report, named Walmart’s Hunger Games, links Walmart’s business practices to the hunger of its workers.
Nine Ways to a Food Waste-Free Thanksgiving… or Christmas
Nine Ways to a Food Waste-Free Thanksgiving… or Christmas – Food Tank highlights ways for eaters and consumers to cut down on food waste while enjoying holiday favorites this Thanksgiving… or Christmas
Pope Francis: ‘The hungry ask us for dignity, not for charity’
Pope Francis: ‘The hungry ask us for dignity, not for charity’ – Echoing sentiments Vincent de Paul would express, Pope Francis spoke passionately on behalf of the more than 800 million hungry people in the world today
Cincinnati Reds to ‘Strike Out Hunger’ with SVDP
Cincinnati Reds to ‘Strike Out Hunger’ with SVDP
April 4 National Fast to End Hunger
There will be a National day of fasting against hunger in Great Britain on Friday 4 April. Perhaps this is something other countries could emulate. Half a million people are going without adequate food in Britain. The End Hunger Fast initiative, which is being backed...
“End Hunger Fast”
This Lent, remember those who go without food – and help us tackle hunger This is the appeal from the Church Poverty website in the United Kingdom. The following contains much food for thought (pun intended) for people outside the United Kingdom and seems to enter...
Pope “Don’t look away!”
Pope Francis issued a video message to support the global campaign against world hunger, launched by Caritas Internationalis. The Pope asked Catholics not to "look the other way” from the "global scandal” of hunger, but rather "share in Christian charity” what they...
Irish SVDP leader on food poverty
Children in schools throughout Tipperary are going hungry every day because of a food poverty crisis according to a leading St.Vincent de Paul officer. Kieran Stafford, national vice president of St.Vincent de Paul, said food poverty was one of the biggest issues they...
Hunger hits Home – Jeff Bridges
Hunger Hits Home, a compelling documentary broadcast on the Food Network and narrated by actor Jeff Bridges, puts a human face on hunger in the United States. The program features policymakers, food providers, politicians and, most important, people in need. The...
SVdP Capwiz Alert: House Seeks Food Stamp Deal
Help Prevent Drastic Cuts to SNAP The "scandal of hunger" which Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI have addressed, the plight of our immigrant sisters and brothers seeking a decent way of life for their families, and the struggle that many poor, underemployed and...
Poverty as a Rubik’s Cube puzzle
Trying to solve poverty is a lot like trying to solve a really hard puzzle. That's why Oxfam has a new six-sided strategy to tackle it, driven by the power of people against poverty. (See below) http://youtu.be/Oja9C6PNSYs 1. First, we're helping people to claim...
