John Hendrix is a managing director in the Financial Services Investment Banking Group at Piper Sandler & Co., where he specializes in providing strategic advice to insurance brokers, underwriters, and service providers. He has more than 25 years of experience as an investment banker to the financial services industry. Hendrix is a second-generation Bread for the World member. He has served on the Advisory Committee for Bread’s New York Gala to End Hunger since 2011. Hendrix graduated cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and holds a Master of Business Administration from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is Presbyterian. New York, New York.
Afghanistan would be considered likely to have high rates of hunger because at least two of the major causes of global hunger affect it—armed conflict and fragile governmental institutions.
Malnutrition is responsible for nearly half of all preventable deaths among children under 5. Every year, the world loses hundreds of thousands of young children and babies to hunger-related causes.
Bread for the World is calling on the Biden-Harris administration and Congress to build a better 1,000-Days infrastructure in the United States.
“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in faith.” These words from Colossians 2:6 remind us of the faith that is active in love for our neighbors.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is designed to respond to changes in need, making it well suited to respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bread for the World and its partners are asking Congress to provide $200 million for global nutrition.
In 2017, 11.8 percent of households in the U.S.—40 million people—were food-insecure, meaning that they were unsure at some point during the year about how they would provide for their next meal.