by Beth | May 6, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
New York City, already having levels of hunger that dwarf levels in any other major city in the industrialized world, is planning to cut funding for the Emergency Food Assistance ProgramBloomberg AGAIN Proposes Reduction in Pantry, Kitchen Funds $670,000 Cut Would...
by Beth | Apr 22, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
You have an opportunity in the next 9 days to have your donation to Food First matched by Alan Shawn Feinstein, who is giving $1 million to fight hunger in the U.S. http://thedatabank.com/hfriend.asp?aacwc=374419911756891063137095 Join the Feinstein Hunger Challenge!...
by Beth | Apr 7, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
There were some 160 projects generated by the Vincentian Family Campaign Against Hunger. These projects gbenerated the following funds * Africa: 494,280 $USA * America: 993,800 $USA * Asia: 32,500 $USA * Europe: 1,245,000 $USA The report provides more in depth...
by Beth | Jan 14, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Daughters of Charity from the Evansville and St. Louis Provinces of the U.S.A. have learned how collaboration with Heifer International give self-sustaining gifts. What a difference a goat, or a cow, pig, rabbit, chicken, duck, llama, water buffalo makes,...
by Beth | Dec 11, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
25/11/2004 – … a new study reveals that almost half the food in the country goes to waste – a statistic that should alarm an industry that is struggling to achieve greater efficiency in order to salvage profits. Sources The new study, from the...