By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The Presbyterian Hunger Program has been supporting its partner Improvement and Development for Communities Center (IDCO) in Gaza since 2014 in IDCO’s efforts to improve the food security situation for Gazans. Back in 2014, food insecurity levels in the Gaza Strip had already exceeded 57%, with more than 36% of Gazans being severely food… Read more »
March 5, 2024
For the past decade, Presbyterian Hunger Program has partnered with a Gaza organization working on food security
By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The Presbyterian Hunger Program has been supporting its partner Improvement and Development for Communities Center (IDCO) in Gaza since 2014 in IDCO’s efforts to improve the food security situation for Gazans. Back in 2014, food insecurity levels in the Gaza Strip had already exceeded 57%, with more than 36% of Gazans being severely food… Read more »
PHP partners flee violence in Gaza By Valery Nodem | Associate for International Hunger Concerns, Presbyterian Hunger Program “If we get killed, tell your communities that Palestinians are peaceful humans struggling only for peace…” These are the words of our partner Rajeh Abbas, founder and Director of the Palestinian nonprofit Improvement and Development for Communities… 
The Anglophone crisis and Russian invasion of Ukraine continue to negatively impact food security and subsistence By Jaff Bamenjo and Enjema Esunge | RELUFA Nkah Ngu Loveline, a 42-year-old petti food stuff trader, originally from Bali-Nyonga in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, sells her goods in Obili, a popular neighborhood in Yaounde, the capital of… 
‘In this prophetic task, the church cannot be absent’ By Dr. Rolando Pérez | Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and the University of Lima *This article was originally published by the Presbyterian News Service on February 8, 2023 Once again we witness another uprising in Peru, one of many in recent years. The protest… 
by Milushka Rojas | Red Uniendo Manos Peru *This article was originally published by the Presbyterian News Service on February 8, 2023 After the resignation of former President Alberto Fujimori, who established a dictatorial-type regime during 1992-2000, Peru began installing a kind of democratic transition period. The Fujimori dictatorship, which operated in a political context… 
Somalis abandon their homes in search of food, water and aid as drought deepens By Yusuf Abdirahman | Kaalmo Relief and Development, Somalia A devastating drought has displaced 1 million Somalis since January 2021, and more people are expected to flee as communities face the prospect of famine in 2023. First, the rains failed, then… 
PHP is supporting partners in 11 of the 19 hunger hotspots identified by the FAO & WFP By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of creating a world free of hunger by 2030 seems destined to fail as extreme hunger and food insecurity continue an upward trend. The Food… 
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… 
By Valery Nodem | Presbyterian Hunger Program This article was originally published in the PHP Post Fall 2022 According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global hunger has reached record levels. Although this steep increase started before the war in Ukraine, it has accelerated the trend — including subsequent bans of wheat export… 
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…