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Global Concerns - Bread for the World |
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 As we read the Scriptures, gather for worship, and join in prayer, we are called to use the abundance of God’s creation to help those in need. Moved by God’s grace in Jesus Christ, we are bold in urging our nation’s leaders to change the policies and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist.
The election of a new president and a new Congress provides a historic opportunity to streamline and improve programs that support farming, schools, and health clinics in developing countries. Bread for the World’s 2009 Offering of Letters urges Congress to rework U.S. foreign assistance to make it more effective in reducing poverty. These changes will:
● strengthen the ability of the United States to promote global development;
● promote economic growth in low-income countries; and,
● support the efforts of poor people to lift themselves out of hunger and poverty.
Making these changes is urgent. Soaring prices for food and fuel have created a global hunger crisis. Millions more people in the world’s poorest countries now face the threat of hunger.
Changing U.S. foreign assistance will help create long-term solutions to this global hunger crisis: nutrition for pregnant women and infants…schools for young children…health clinics to fight AIDS and malaria…and tools to boost agricultural productivity.
By focusing U.S. foreign assistance on global development, our country will support international efforts to foster lasting peace. And by making foreign aid more efficient, we exercise good stewardship of our nation’s resources.
Changing U.S. foreign assistance so it’s more efficient will help hungry people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America grow enough food to feed their families and others in their communities.
You can help create long-term solutions to the global hunger crisis!
Join Bread for the World’s 2009 Offering of Letters. Write your senators and representatives in Washington. Urge them to change U.S. foreign assistance so that it’s more effective in helping hungry people feed themselves and their families.
SAMPLE LETTER
Your Name
Your Address
Date
Dear Representative _____________________________ or
Dear Senator __________________________:
I am asking that you make something our nation has been doing well even better.
Aid from the United States already helps low-income nations reduce hunger and poverty. But our nation’s foreign assistance programs are seriously outdated and need to be better coordinated in order to be more effective. It is time for Congress to look at making poverty reduction a primary goal of foreign assistance.
Please work to bring U.S. foreign assistance up to date and ensure that development is elevated as a national priority, alongside defense and diplomacy, in our foreign policy. This will ensure more economic opportunities in low-income countries and help poor people lift themselves out of hunger and poverty.
Sincerely,
Your Name
Mail your letters to:
Sen. __________________ Rep. __________________
U.S. Senate U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20515
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