World Environment Day, June 5 By Dan Turk, Mission Co-worker Madagascar and Rolland Razafiarison, Technical Manager FVEE This century, Madagascar faces two major challenges: lifting its people out of poverty and preventing the extinction of its unique plants and animals. These challenges compete for assistance funds and often seem to be at cross purposes. Some of… Read more »
June 2, 2021
Fighting Poverty and Extinction in Madagascar
World Environment Day, June 5 By Dan Turk, Mission Co-worker Madagascar and Rolland Razafiarison, Technical Manager FVEE This century, Madagascar faces two major challenges: lifting its people out of poverty and preventing the extinction of its unique plants and animals. These challenges compete for assistance funds and often seem to be at cross purposes. Some of… Read more »
PHP and Matthew 25 Issue The Presbyterian Hunger Program’s alignment with Matthew 25 is outlined in the centerspread of this PHP Post. Also featured in this edition are: Land is the basis of freedom Fighting colonialism and poverty globally A Peaceful Path Download the PHP & Matthew 25 poster Download the PHP Post
“We’re part of the solution!” By Andrew Kang Bartlett | Presbyterian Hunger Program … is the slogan for this year’s UN International Day of Biological Diversity, which the world has been celebrated on May 22, since 1993. The International Day for Biological Diversity bolsters the Sustainable Development Goals and highlights the United Nations’ Convention on… 
By Eileen Schuhmann, and Valery Nodem | Presbyterian Hunger Program *This article was originally published in the PHP Post Spring 2021/Matthew 25 Edition In our international work, the Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) is in many ways working with partners to remedy the past injustices that are the legacy of colonialism, as well as to fight… 
PHP is celebrating 20 years of Joining Hands with partners around the world who are advocating for justice. In 2000, the Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) determined that direct food aid and training programs alone will not end hunger in the world. In response, PHP started Joining Hands. Joining Hands helps organize and support networks of… 
By Rebecca Barnes | Presbyterian Hunger Program The Presbyterian Church (USA)—through the Presbyterian Hunger Program and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance as well as local congregations—has had a decades-long partnership with Growing Hope Globally, an organization that connects U.S. farmers, churches and communities to subsistence farmers around the world in order to help address hunger. The Presbyterian… 
By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program On March 8, we celebrate International Women’s Day and the achievement of women as well as acknowledge the continued struggle for gender equality. The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) has a long history of partnering with women-led organizations as well as organizations that center the development and empowerment of… 
The West Africa Initiative continues to build community By Winston Carroo | Agricultural Missions, Inc. On this day, now marked as the International Day of Human Fraternity, we are reminded of the power of peace, cooperation, and resilience. In many developing countries, religious and sectarian strife and conflicts are the realities of daily life, often… 
Sustainability and Earth Care Issue The Presbyterian Hunger Program’s Sustainable Living and Earth Care Concerns work is outlined in the centerspread of this PHP Post. Also featured in this issue are: The Lord’s Prayer Liturgy The Sacred Connection Between Black Women and the Earth Blessing the Butterflies: Churchville Presbyterian Cares for Creation Who’s Who… 
By Rev. Ellie Stock Inside the glass a young man says his last goodbye, a phone call to his mother, vigiling outside, a cough and a sneeze now a pandemic disease, soon he is whispering, I can’t breathe— isolated and trapped by a ventilator machine, a masked nurse holds his hand to ease his pain…