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Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor
Reauthorize program to help feed children
The Gazette’s Nov. 19 editorial, “Putting food on the table,” highlighted the increase in U.S. food insecurity in 2008 but did not include the shocking data on the increase in childhood hunger. Nearly one in four U.S. children last year was food insecure, living in families who were unsure of how to provide their next meal. Read more
—The Gazette, November 26, 2009
Urge passage of foreign aid bill
With all of the attention in Washington focused on health-care legislation, it is easy for the rest of the important work of our legislators to go unnoticed. However, Sen. Jim DeMint has an opportunity to influence legislation that would reform foreign aid and bring relief and opportunity to poor and hungry people around the world. Read more
—The Greenville News, November 15, 2009
Support grows to retool foreign aid
Foreign assistance — the use of U. S. dollars, know-how and leadership to help poor countries — has been a necessary and effective tool of foreign policy since World War II. Read more
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 9, 2009
Foreign aid
I am writing regarding your recent editorial “Work a little bit while Congress rests” (Aug. 10). This is a crucial time for gaining support for both the Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009 (HR 2139) and the Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Accountability Act of 2009 (S. 1524). Read more
—Baptist Standard, September 3, 2009
Effective and efficient foreign assistance
In the midst of a debate over finding the best way to reform our domestic health care system, it's good to know that there's plenty of activity in Congress to make our Foreign Assistance more efficient and effective. Read more
—Xenia Daily Gazette, September 1, 2009
Don't drop the global
While our own economic crisis and such things as health-care reform understandably occupy our attention, we must never forget the wider global needs, such as combating hunger, which often have very direct influence on our more local problems. Read more
—Santa Fe New Mexican, August 23, 2009
Foreign aid is important
In a letter to the editor in Sunday's Washington Post, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., expressed concern for inefficiency and lack of coordination in American foreign assistance programs. Read more
—Frederick News-Post, August 22, 2009
Work a little bit while Congress rests
While our emissaries to Washington take a vacation, you and I can do a little work that could improve the lives of millions of people all over the world. Read more
—Baptist Standard, August 7, 2009
Helping Our Neighbors At Home and Abroad
In Chinandega, Nicaragua, widow Nubia Baca has built up a 60-head dairy ranch and a profitable cheese-making business. She now employs six men at her ranch and three women. Read more
—La Opinion, July 30, 2009
American foreign aid needs reform
There is a vital piece of legislation currently in Congress on foreign assistance called Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act, making better use of our taxpayer money. President Kennedy implemented the Foreign Assistance Act in 1961. Read more
—Springfield News-Leader, July 15, 2009
Mission possible: fixing foreign aid
All across South Carolina and the country, there are thousands of people from churches, synagogues and mosques preparing for, returning from and working through their summer "mission" trips. I know these folks, because I have talked to them in airplanes and airports as a fellow mission project worker. We want to do what we can to make the world a better place. That world may only be a tiny village in Honduras, a bare-bones hospital or infirmary in Africa or a school in Nicaragua. Read more
—The State online, July 14, 2009
Renew, improve Child Nutrition Act
Too many kids are hungry. Even before the financial crisis, more than one in six Iowa youth (nearly 125,000) lived in families who struggled to provide food. Very few students who receive free or reducedprice school meals are served by summer nutrition programs, so vacation becomes a hunger season. Read more
—The Gazette, July 13, 2009
Revise act to feed world's hungry
"Global hunger soars, U.N. warns" (Sept. 20) reports how the financial crisis has increased the number of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion. Read more
—San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 2009
Aid policies push reforms
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Too many people here struggle to get food to eat, medicine to treat their illnesses, and shelter or education for their families. They need our help, and Hoosiers have stepped up. Read more
—IndyStar, June 29, 2009
Help the world's hungry
An article in the June 20 Journal Star, “U.N.: World hunger reaches 1B mark,” reported that the current financial meltdown has resulted in an additional 100 million hungry people worldwide compared with last year, pushing the ranks of those who consume fewer than 1,800 calories per day above 1 billion for the first time. Read more
—Journal Star, June 28, 2009
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