Other Agencies
Join the Fast for a World Harvest today!
Oxfam supporters have a long history of working for change. On the Thursday before Thanksgiving, thousands of Oxfam supporters will participate in the 34th annual Fast for a World Harvest. They will fast for the day or skip a meal, donating their food money to Oxfam. More than just a means of addressing hunger issues, the Fast has come to symbolize the grassroots nature of working together for change. You can be a part of it. Click here to learn more about what you can do to help alleviate hunger and poverty.
Bread for the World is a 54,000-member Christian citizens' movement against hunger. Founded in 1974, Bread for the World's members have lobbied Congress and the administration to bring about public policy changes that address the root causes of hunger and poverty in the United States and overseas. Bread for the World is a nonpartisan organization supported by 45 denominations and many theological perspectives. Bread for the World Institute works closely with Bread for the World by engaging in research and education on policies related to hunger and development.
Bread for the World staff are available to comment on a variety of subjects including: international hunger, domestic hunger, Christian advocacy, the ONE Campaign and campus activism.
About CARE
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
A note from EGR Executive Director, Mike Kinman:
Sept. 13, 2007
over the past few months, EGR has developed a wonderful working relationship with CARE, which does great work in advocacy around MDG issues effecting women and children.
A few weeks ago, those of you whose dioceses contain districts and senators targeted by CARE for passage of the Education for All Act received an email from me with specific requests about contacting those senators and representatives -- with the promise of more information and resources to come. Thanks for whatever attention you were able to give to that.
Click here for a follow-up email from Julie Heinz at CARE for EVERYONE on this list. If you received an earlier email from me about one of your targeted Congressional representatives, it is particularly important ... but it's also for anyone who wants to participate in advocacy for this critical peace of legislation for MDG #2 (universal primary education). Please click and send the email or make the call and encourage your people in your diocese to do the same.
One more short note ... there are a limited number of the DVDs available. If you will really be making good use of it (showing it to a group or at your congregation), then by all means please request one. But if you're not sure if or how you would use it, hold off until they have a chance to make more (their budget is limited, too!).
GAIA
Meg Styles of GAIA (the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance) writes of the work they do bringing people of faith together to fight AIDS in Malawi
GAIA's work encompasses every one of the Millennium Development Goals as it works to prevent and mitigate the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to address the underlying social causes such as poverty, gender inequality, and the lack of access to education. GAIA's work can be a focus for Episcopal congregations seeking to respond to the denominational mandate to make the MDGs a priority.
The Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance ("GAIA") partners with faith and community-based organizations in resource-poor countries for community-based HIV prevention and AIDS care. GAIA's work is currently focused in the Central African country of Malawi, one of the world's poorest nations. Malawi ranks #1 in the world in the category of greatest number of people per physician, at 88,321. The country is third in the world in maternal mortality rates with 1800 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. It ranks 5th in the world in lowest GDP per head at $180. It is 8th in the world in HIV prevalence in the 15 - 49 age range, with 14.2 % of the population living with HIV. Only two percent of the population is connected to the country's power grid.
GAIA works through Christian and Muslim groups to reach rural villages, hospitals, clinics, and community-based organizations to establish sustainable HIV prevention and AIDS care strategies. We help communities to develop locally initiated, planned and led HIV projects specific to local needs. We support 21 local projects serving an estimated 15,000 people, and our Women's Empowerment Project, funded from 2003 through May 2006 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has reached 25,600 additional people in 37 more villages. A replication of that project in 20 additional villages serves another 11,100 people.
GAIA aggressively supports the following programmatic work:
Read the whole story here.
For additional information on how your congregation can get involved and partner with GAIA to provide life-saving interventions, please feel free to contact GAIA's Community Relations Director, Meg Styles at 925-360-1868. Please feel free to visit our website www.thegaia.org.
The Micah Challenge
Micah Challenge is a global Christian campaign. Our aims are to deepen our engagement with the poor; and to challenge leaders to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and so halve absolute global poverty by 2015!
Listen to the Call to Grace
Your donations will help us to build and sustain the Micah Challenge throughout the world.
If you would like to make a donation please email us with the words:
"I'd like to donate to the Micah Challenge and I live in "
Micah Challenge is named from verse 6:8 of the biblical prophet Micah
"what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God".
