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URGENT ACTION: Call Congress TODAY!


Catherine Phiri is featured in Bread for the World's 2008 Offering of Letters handbook

Call your Senators and urge them to cosponsor and pass the Global Poverty Act. This bill is a vital step to ensuring our foreign assistance programs help the most vulnerable people. Time is running out!

Read the talking points for your call and use our special toll-free number.

 
Understanding the Global Hunger Crisis 


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Food prices are soaring worldwide, and people are going hungry. Some have labeled the current hunger crisis "a perfect storm", as threatening economic and environmental factors crash together.

Bread for the World explains the causes of the current emergency and keeps tabs on the latest developments.

"We Are Bread for the World" New Video


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 No iPod Needed!


iPod nanoThis month's Breadcast features interviews with Hunger Justice Leaders, Sister Margaret Mary Kimmins on moving beyond charity to social justice, and David Beckmann’s presentation to the World Food Summit.
 
How to listen (with or without an iPod). You just need a computer.

 
New Bread for the World T-Shirts

Bread for the World t-shirtsWear your support for Bread for the World on your sleeve.

You can feel good about more than just showing your passion for fighting hunger: Our shirts are guaranteed to be made with fair labor practices. Order online.

 
Beckmann Attends World Food Summit


David Beckmann at World Food SummitIn June, Bread for the World President David Beckmann spoke at the High-Level Conference on World Food Security in Rome.

Beckmann argued that the response to the world hunger crisis should include building the political will to push for policies that help hungry and poor people. Read or listen to his remarks and his full report from the proceedings.

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