Hunger & Poverty Archives

Celebrating the victories of Joining Hands and its alliances

Posted April 1st, 2022

Two longtime members of Joining Hands, an international ministry of the Presbyterian Hunger Program, shared memories and reflections during a Thursday afternoon broadcast.

Advocates for farmworker safety to march in Florida

Posted March 31st, 2022

The Presbyterian Hunger Program is rallying support for a march taking place in Florida this weekend to urge the Wendy’s restaurant chain to join a program to help protect farmworkers.

The crisis in Ukraine is front and center, but others also deserve our attention and compassion

Posted March 29th, 2022

The Presbyterian Hunger Program’s Valéry Nodem, a former human rights lawyer in his native Cameroon, is sounding the alarm over possible outbreaks of famine in places like northern Nigeria and elsewhere.

Agents of change in Nigeria

Posted March 29th, 2022

Although Nigeria ranks among Africa’s richest nations, Ohel Swade would never know it.

Cultivating hope and resiliency in South Sudan

Posted March 3rd, 2022

Nyapan Gai no longer goes to sleep hungry. The widowed mother of six children, whom prevailing customs and societal traditions prevented from inheriting her late husband’s cattle, had no choice but to work whatever jobs she could find to feed her family.

Returning to the land

Posted March 1st, 2022

People of color find healing in working the land, which has historically been associated with slavery and picking produce for low wages.

Rural poverty webinar coming in March

Posted February 22nd, 2022

Rural poverty will be the focus of the March 10 installment of “The Struggle is Real,” a virtual discussion series by the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP).

‘Who dey! Who dey! Who dey think gonna beat that hunger? We dey!’

Posted February 8th, 2022

“Who dey! Who dey! Who dey think gonna beat that hunger? We dey!”

Bringing Earth care to Hispanic-Latina churches

Posted January 28th, 2022

Representatives from various Hispanic-Latina churches were introduced to the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s Earth care programming this week as part of a series of educational talks called “New Year, Earth Renewed” or “Año nuevo, Tierra renovada.”

Reimagining the ‘Charity Garden’

Posted January 26th, 2022

This new column will explore how food intersects with faith around issues of justice, race, ecology, poverty and more.