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Hunger Fund
Your financial support enables the Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) to witness to the healing love of Christ and to bring hope to communities and individuals struggling with hunger. Your gifts to the Presbyterian Hunger Fund help to end hunger worldwide.
H999999. Read moreHaiti
Before the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, Haiti was already plagued as chronically food deficient, importing more than 60 percent of the food needed to feed its population. The 2010 earthquake has intensified the poverty and hunger there. The environment is so deteriorated that drastic measures must be taken to sustain the country's population. Gifts to this account will help fund long-term recovery activities in Haiti including small sustainable agricultural initiatives and small business development.
H000014. Read moreHunger & Human Development in the USA
Hunger and poverty are persistent and growing realities in the US. In the midst of great wealth, children go to bed hungry, elderly people subsist on meager diets and the working poor are unable to make a living adequate to provide sufficient food for their families. The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) approves grants to projects addressing hunger and poverty in the US. These grants enable church and community groups to provide direct food relief and address the underlying causes of hunger. Your gifts will make it possible to reach out to more hungry children, homeless families and communities working to ...
E865703. Read moreHunger & Human Development In Africa
Africa is torn by various man-made calamities that make its population more vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters. Civil war, political oppression, governmental corruption and mismanagement, collapse of government-managed health care and educational systems and the low return on the world market for African cash crops and raw materials all contribute to a catastrophic decrease in the quality of life for the majority of the people. Local populations are mobilizing through churches, non-governmental and grassroots organizations in order to try to help themselves. Funds are needed to support programs organized in the areas of agriculture, water development, reforestation, primary ...
E865101. Read moreHunger & Human Development In Latin America & The Caribbean
Children and their families throughout Latin America and the Caribbean continue to suffer from hunger and poverty brought about by social disruption, political oppression, economic inequities and natural disasters. Church groups and community organizations are mobilized to address these problems. They need financial assistance to support agricultural and economic development, education and nutritional enhancement, training and technical assistance for poor people in rural and urban areas.
E865504. Read moreGlobal Food Crisis
Gifts will support hunger relief and poverty reduction initiatives related to the Global Food Crisis. Priority is given to integrated development and community empowerment projects throughout the world, including agricultural training and programs to increase local and regional food self-sufficiency and community prosperity.
H333333. Read moreSmall Farmer Fund
As part of the Presbyterian Coffee Project, the Small Farmer Fund is one way that the Presbyterian Hunger Program, Equal Exchange and PC(USA) congregations work together to support small farmer projects in coffee growing regions around the world. For each pound of fairly traded products that Presbyterians purchase through the Presbyterian Coffee Project, Equal Exchange donates 15 cents to the Small Farmer Fund, which is administered by the Presbyterian Hunger Program. Congregations and individuals are invited make their own contributions to the fund as a way of supporting the farmers and their communities.
H000111. Read moreFood Sovereignty
Food Sovereignty is a worldwide campaign seeking to promote the right of peoples of any given country to produce the essential food commodities needed for their survival, in accordance with their cultural traditions and not to have to depend on outside seeds and entrant sources to do so. Furthermore, it is the right of any people to secure access to secondary food supplies as they sees fit and not to be constrained by political and military pressures from more powerful and rich countries.
H000203. Read moreWater is Life
Water is Life is a worldwide campaign to preserve the Right of access to clean water for all of God's Creation. It promotes global education about the importance of clean water and the need to preserve it, anti-pollution measures to protect our lakes, rivers, and underground water from contamination by agricultural and mineral toxic bi-products, anti-privatization policies and practices that commodity this essential God's Gift, and threaten to deprive access of poor people to water, and all other threats to the right of all living beings to water.
H000201. Read moreFood & Faith: Food Justice for All
Donations to this fund, administered by the Presbyterian Hunger Program, will support dynamic initiatives that uphold justice for workers in our food and farming systems, protect God's creation, and provide access to fresh, healthy food for all of God's children.
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