World Food Day: Not everyone has a pantry full of groceries
Can you imagine walking into your kitchen, opening the pantry, and finding nothing but dust and cobwebs? The shelves are bare. Your wallet is empty. And you have no idea when you’ll be able to eat again. Unfortunately, this is reality for people like Martha. She used...
When you ship, you help save lives
Hector was dying. But it wasn’t just the leukemia that was killing this little boy. It was hunger. Hector lives in Venezuela, a volatile country that was struggling to cope long before the coronavirus arrived. With civil unrest, a collapsing economy, and starving...
Worst case: ‘Another generation of children who are orphaned’
“COVID-19 poses an especially large risk for the vulnerable children whose mothers, fathers, or guardians already have weakened immune systems,” one of our partners in Africa said. “If it impacts our nation, there will likely be another generation of children who are...
Zimbabwe unemployment as high as 80% amid pandemic
Over 26 million Americans are out of work because of the coronavirus. Their livelihoods have been upended. Fortunately, many have options to help them at least in the short term. They have savings. They can file for unemployment. There’s a stimulus check on the way....
On World Food Day, help feed a child for an entire year
When Margaret and her husband began a feeding program in Venezuela, they knew the need for food was great — but they weren’t expecting 150 hungry kids to show up every week. Over the past several years, Venezuela has fallen into a massive economic crisis....
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