Hunger

This fall our network is mobilizing around hunger. Whether you hosting a Broken Bread poverty meal or not, you still have the ability to mobilize your friends to advocate against hunger. We just posted a new Facebook petition around hunger with a goal of getting 15,000 signatures by November 30th. It’s a big goal and it will take all of us from campuses across the country.

Planning for our schools upcoming Broken Bread poverty meal is going great! We have several creative activities planned for the evening that I wanted to share with the network.

Adding art is a really great way to make a greater impact during your poverty meal. At JBC We are  having a really talented student do a live painting during the entire event. We will also be displaying several local artists and poets work during the meal.

By Kristie Urich, World Vision ACT:S National Team

When I returned from serving two years in the Peace Corps in West Africa, I went to the grocery store to buy some cereal. After literally an hour of poring through the rows of boxes, trying to choose one, I was overwhelmed. We have such abundance in the U.S.—especially compared to the devastating lack that many face around the world. I started to feel disgusted, ashamed, and guilty for the ways we can hoard and waste our abundance.

We are really excited about all the Broken Bread poverty meals happening all over the country. Here are NEW resources available for your Broken Bread poverty meal.  Haven't signed up for Broken Bread yet? It is not too late! Sign-up, we'll send you the porridge, the story cards for you to print off and a leader's guide...dowload these resources below and you are set!

Download the Broken Bread Poster

Download the Hunger Petition

Download the Hunger Fact Sheet

Robert Zachritz, World Vision's director of advocacy and government relations, talks about the urgency of the global hunger crisis, and what it will take to achieve food security worldwide.

How do we ACT: on hunger? Host a Broken Bread poverty meal.

The Broken Bread poverty meal involves cooking and eating the Corn Soy blended porridge, which is distributed by World Vision for emergency food relief in dire situations around the world. Below is a short story about the distribution of Corn Soy Blend in South Darfur.

Want to raise awareness and advocacy around the issue of hunger? Sign up to host a Broken Bread poverty meal at www.worldvisionacts.org/brokenbread.

World Vision provides supplementary food to 40,000 displaced children
By: Almahady, Mohamad

This is the first entry of Matt Cumming’s Broken Bread poverty meal blog. He will be hosting an event this fall at Johnson Bible College and will be bloging some of his thoughts throughout the month.

Last year our school, hosted our first ever Broken Bread poverty meal. It was an amazing experience. I was on point for preparing the porridge and worked with our other leaders to figure out the organizational structure of the event.

Stand with the hungry and speak out on their behalf by hosting a Broken Bread poverty meal.

[World Vision Press Release] Pittsburgh, September 22, 2009—As world leaders gather at the United Nations and G20 meetings this week, the future of the $20 billion food security initiative first proposed at July’s G8 summit remains uncertain, say aid policy experts at Christian humanitarian agency World Vision.

By Kelli Day, World Vision  "I think the happiest children in the world are those who know no hunger," says Laura Ndlovu, 10. She can still feel the lingering hunger pangs that would wrench her belly on the nights when she and her siblings went to sleep with empty stomachs. Grandmother Regina — who cares for Laura and 12 other children — had nothing to give them.
 
Another day of hunger