Keeping Strong
As we work to see Make Hunger History legislation enacted, it will be vitally important to ensure that federal nutrition programs remain strong and fully funded, especially now when hunger and poverty are on the rise. Congress should adopt a fair budget that protects and expands nutrition and other anti-poverty programs. Our opportunity to make sure that this happens begins in February and March of every year, as Congress debates the federal budget resolution.
“When citizens become involved in the budget process, they can make a real difference in the lives of people who struggle to put food on the table,” said Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), a board member of Bread for the World who serves on the Senate Budget Committee. “I encourage Bread for the World members to contact their elected officials to let their priorities be known. It is this very type of grassroots action that can keep strong the programs that help hungry and poor people.”
This is the moment to build a new movement to end hunger. Nationwide, anti-hunger organizations and advocates are joining together to call on our leaders to make real progress toward the stated goal of cutting food insecurity in half by 2010 and to commit to ending hunger by 2015. The president, members of Congress, state and local officials, and community-based activists – each has an important role to play in seeing this goal through. As a constituent with the power to make your voice heard, you too have a role: writing and encouraging others to write letters to members of Congress reminding them that hunger is unacceptable in our prosperous nation. If we work together, if we all play our individual roles and commit to the tasks at hand – in a spirit not of timidity, but of power and love – we can rekindle the gift of God within us. We can Make Hunger History.
