Listen in as Bread for the World organizers LaVida Davis, based in Chicago, and Robin Stephenson, in Portland, Oregon, tell us how activists in their neck of the woods are mobilizing to end hunger. “It’s about people power,” says Davis. “It’s about the work of everyday folks.”
Monica Mills, Bread’s director of government relations, updates us on the progress of foreign aid reform on Capitol Hill, and Joy Ike, a Nigerian-born singer-songwriter, gives us music for the journey with her smooth jazz sounds.
Revisit the most popular stories and music of 2009 in the year-end edition of Breadcast.
We feature a story on land ownership with interviews from Nicaragua and Habitat for Humanity and a sit down with former Bread policy analyst, Charles Uphaus (now at USAID).
AND... Music from Kimya Dawson (featured in the film JUNO), The Watoto Children's Choir from Uganda, and Palestinian musician Bashir Taha.
Ambassador Tony Hall talks about what he saw and heard at a United Nations High-Level Expert Forum on How to Feed the World in 2050 in Rome last month.
Dustin Miller of The Harvest Initiative tells us how this innovative non-profit group facilitates economic activity and financial literacy on the Crow Creek Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
AND... Music from the Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, Virginia.
