Thursday, September 02, 2010 - Food kits are being distributed to flood-affected families in Pakistan.
Our partners have now procured and bagged the items for the food kits
are are working hard to get the food to those who need it most. See
images of the kits being bagged and loaded for delivery here.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank partners Church World Service and Interfaith League Against Poverty
are distributing food kits to over 12,000 flood affected families in an
emergency response to the floods that began at the end of July.
Want to help? Donate to Pakistan Flood Relief.
Gifts received before September 12th are eligible for the 1:1 match by
the Canadian government as well the 4:1 match agreement that Canadian
Foodgrains Bank has with Canadian International Development Agency.
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Monday, August 30, 2010 - "We're happy to do this because we are called to love other people
regardless of who they are," Moussa*, a volunteer helping with the
subsidized grain sale, told Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
(CRWRC) staff.
Moussa himself is a beneficiary of CRWRC’s emergency food distribution
in Niger. In the face of crippling drought, CRWRC, is working with a
local organization to make grain available to about 10,000 people
through sales of grain at subsidized prices and by increasing the stock
of cereal banks. Due to his harvest and family sizes, Moussa had been
one of the individuals selected to purchase grain at a much-subsidized
price the week before.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 - If you have bookkeeping and clerical skills
and want to assist in the work of ending hunger, consider applying for the position
of Office Clerk with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. See the job posting for more details.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - Early this week the Canadian government announced that it would match
funds donated to Pakistan relief efforts. For every dollar donated to
the Foodgrains Bank and designated to Pakistan flood relief, the
government has promised to set aside a dollar to be used to help those
affected by the flooding. This match is in addition to the 4:1 Canadian
International Development Agency match that many Foodgrains Bank
programs are eligible for.
According to our partners on the ground, the death toll is up to 2000
people and thousands more continue to be affected every day.
You can contribute to this response by donating here.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - You can view images from the Pakistan floods here. Thank you to our partner Church World Service - Pakistan/Afghanistan for sharing the images.
Want to help? You can donate to Pakistan relief here.
For every dollar you designate to "Pakistan Flood Relief" between
August 2nd and September 12th the Canadian government will set aside a
dollar to help those affected by the flood. This is in addition to the
Foodgrains Bank 4:1 match on eligible projects from the Canadian
International Development Agency.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - Plans are underway for food kits to be distributed to 11,000 households affected by severe flooding in Pakistan.
With hundreds of thousands of homes already destroyed in what National
Management Authority is calling “the worst disaster in Pakistan’s
history” people in Pakistan are in immediate need of basic necessities.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank is responding to food needs through Church World Service - Pakistan/Afghanistan and Interfaith League Against Poverty who will distribute food kits containing rice, lentils, flour, oil, sugar, salt, tea, and spices.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 - This beautiful earth sustains us, and
whether or not we recognize the mysteries of all living and non-living
things, God is indeed present in them. The act of producing food
is one of the best ways to reflect on the secrets of creation. We too
often forget that creation is a constant activity of God rather than a
single moment when God formed the world, wound it up and set it in
motion.
This year's Fast for Change
materials focus on food production and call us into deeper relationship
with God, the earth, and our communities. The new prayer and
reflection booklet, 7 Days to Tend the Earth, has a piece of original
art, a prayer, a fact, and a suggestion for a small change for each
day. Order
booklets for yourself a small group at no cost to you.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - Reflections on the course Our Contested Food System: Cultivating a Just Peace, offered by the Canadian School of Peacebuilding, June 14-18, 2010.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - What do you do when you rely on your herd of cattle and goats to make
a living, and there is no water or grass to feed them because of
drought? What do you do when this is the third year in a row that you
and your community have faced this situation, and more than 99% of your
livestock have already died? These are the tough questions facing
thousands of families right now in southwestern and central Kenya, where
years of drought have wiped out animal populations and left people with
few options for food and income.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010 - Canadian Foodgrains and Fish Bank? Thousands of kilometers east
from the grain fields of the prairies, food producers of another kind
are catching the vision of feeding the hungry of the world. This spring
the Fundy North Fisherman’s Association launched their charitable
campaign ‘Fish for the Hungry’.
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