By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The Presbyterian Hunger Program has been supporting its partner Improvement and Development for Communities Center (IDCO) in Gaza since 2014 in IDCO’s efforts to improve the food security situation for Gazans. Back in 2014, food insecurity levels in the Gaza Strip had already exceeded 57%, with more than 36% of Gazans being severely food… Read more »
March 5, 2024
For the past decade, Presbyterian Hunger Program has partnered with a Gaza organization working on food security
By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The Presbyterian Hunger Program has been supporting its partner Improvement and Development for Communities Center (IDCO) in Gaza since 2014 in IDCO’s efforts to improve the food security situation for Gazans. Back in 2014, food insecurity levels in the Gaza Strip had already exceeded 57%, with more than 36% of Gazans being severely food… Read more »
God’s gifts of food and water are used as weapons of war in Palestine By Andrew Kang Bartlett | Presbyterian Hunger Program ‘How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a sibling in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but… 
By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program Israel’s war in Gaza has caused hardship for all Palestinians, including Palestinian workers. Before the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, 200,000 Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank were employed in Israel. Then Israel closed checkpoints and all 200,000 Palestinians were suspended from working in… 
Women owned and operated bakery transforms lives in Malawi By Fletcher Padoka | Kasupe Ministries Malawi In 2022, Kasupe Ministries, with the support of funding from the Presbyterian Hunger Program, installed the Kasupe Women’s Bakery in Kasupe, Malawi. The goal was to create a women owned and operated bakery that would address the local shortage… 
PHP is supporting partners in 11 of the 19 hunger hotspots identified by the FAO & WFP By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of creating a world free of hunger by 2030 seems destined to fail as extreme hunger and food insecurity continue an upward trend. The Food… 
By Aldo Caliari | Jubilee USA As developing countries face mounting global economic shocks and a deteriorating growth scenario, the concern that we may be on the brink of a chaotic series of debt crises has become more real. The role of private creditors – investment funds, private equity funds, commercial banks and other firms… 
Malnutrition is preventable. By next year, approximately 14 million children are expected to be severely malnourished. Roughly 811 million people worldwide face hunger now. Investing in nutrition saves lives. We encourage you to reach out to your members of Congress to ask them to support the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2022 (H.R…. 
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By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program Staff Debt is a root cause of hunger and poverty. Global debt (which includes borrowing by governments, businesses and people) surpassed $300 trillion in 2021, a record $77 trillion increase from 2020, which the International Monetary Fund cautions is at dangerously high levels.[i] This extraordinary borrowing has stemmed… 
By Valery Nodem | Presbyterian Hunger Program This article was originally published in the PHP Post Fall 2022 According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global hunger has reached record levels. Although this steep increase started before the war in Ukraine, it has accelerated the trend — including subsequent bans of wheat export…