by annaread | Apr 28, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
“The real resolution of hunger and the issue of people facing hunger is not giving them a food box, but dealing with the underlying issues of why they need that in the first place,” says the executive director of a food share program in Oregon, USA. Read...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A brutal convergence of events has hit an unprepared global market, and grain prices are sky high. The world’s poor suffer most. Hunger related riots have occurred in 17 countries. Food is becoming speculation tool replacing mortgages. Excerpts fro an...
by sjs | Apr 12, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A bank in the Midwest sponsors a hunger awareness week to bring attention to hunger and poverty. Teens in Calgary initiate a 30-hour fast to raise awareness of what it is like to be hungry. Read the articles here and here as a springboard to considering other...
by annaread | Mar 30, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
That’s the judgment of a food bank executive in Tampa Bay, Florida USA where demand at food pantries and soup kitchens such as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul’s has increased by 20 to 25 per cent. At the same time, cash donations have decreased. Read...
by annaread | Mar 27, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA a dining room that is the project of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul served lunch for 300. On the menu: ham, green beans, dirty rice and cheesecake. The dining room served a record 217,000 meals last year. Read the...
