By Aldo Caliari | Jubilee USA The pandemic-induced global economic crisis reversed years of progress in reducing poverty and hunger worldwide. Crushing debt burdens in developing countries are a crucial factor amplifying the impacts and limiting their capacity to respond. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 60% of the poorest countries, and one-third of… Read more »
August 10, 2022
The International Community Must Respond to the Debt Crisis
By Aldo Caliari | Jubilee USA The pandemic-induced global economic crisis reversed years of progress in reducing poverty and hunger worldwide. Crushing debt burdens in developing countries are a crucial factor amplifying the impacts and limiting their capacity to respond. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 60% of the poorest countries, and one-third of… Read more »
Malnutrition is preventable. By next year, approximately 14 million children are expected to be severely malnourished. Roughly 811 million people worldwide face hunger now. Investing in nutrition saves lives. We encourage you to reach out to your members of Congress to ask them to support the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2022 (H.R…. 
In the Eradicating Systemic Poverty issue… From Reform to Transformation: Ending Hunger and Eradicating Poverty Eradicating Systemic Poverty and Hunger Building Relationships First, Then Working Together for Change Matthew 25 Assertions on Poverty The Global Debt Crisis and Worsening Hunger and Poverty International Guests Become Friends The Three L’s of Relationships Global Hunger on the… 
By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program Staff Debt is a root cause of hunger and poverty. Global debt (which includes borrowing by governments, businesses and people) surpassed $300 trillion in 2021, a record $77 trillion increase from 2020, which the International Monetary Fund cautions is at dangerously high levels.[i] This extraordinary borrowing has stemmed… 
The Republic of Cameroon is a participant of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. The Kimberley Process is meant to increase transparency and oversight in the diamond industry, as well as eliminate conflict diamonds. RELUFA, the Joining Hands network in Cameroon, is a member of the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition (KPCSC). The KPCSC observes the… 
Download the latest PHP Impact Report and see what your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing and PHP helped achieve in 2021. https://www.presbyterianmission.org/resource/2021-php-impact-report/ The work of the Presbyterian Hunger Program is possible thanks to your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing.
World Fair Trade Day is celebrated this year on Saturday May 14. It’s an opportunity to envision a world where trade helps support healthy and sustainable communities around the world. We are called to not only reflect on the importance of our consumption choices, but also to evaluate the larger systems at work. International governance… 
The theme of the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s latest resource is congregational vitality How do ministries of alleviating hunger, providing affordable housing, caring for the earth and building just societies help enliven congregations? Read about congregational vitality that comes through efforts to work on hunger and its root causes in the latest edition of the PHP… 
By Jaff Bamenjo | RELUFA, Joining Hands Cameroon On the 24th of February 2022, the Russian military invaded Ukraine generating an international outcry and concern for the atrocities and sufferings inflicted on the civilian population. Millions of people have been leaving Ukrainian towns and cities to neighbor countries in Europe such as Poland, Hungary, Moldova,… 
Global partners persist in the face of chaos By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program A few months into 2022, and looking back through 2021, the world has been affected by so many crises, each of them impacting people and the planet in unprecedented ways. But working with incredible partners in the middle of endless…