The road is not wide, but it winds through communities of several thousand people. Even here, close to the 2 kilometer-wide Jamuna river, every inch of land is precious in highly-populated Bangladesh. We’re in the community of Chondonbaisha, home to 200 families who have lost their homes to river erosion this month. River erosion [...]
Archive | September, 2012
The Chair in the Seed
“Where did this chair come from?” Germán asked me. We had been talking with a group of women in Bolivia who had just started their own sewing school with guidance from FH. Germán, the FH staff member who leads the project, was making a point about helping the women to support themselves. Germán related the training he had given [...]
Former sponsored child shares story
You are making a difference in the life of your sponsored child! Through your faithful gifts, you are changing the trajectory of a life. To see an example of the type of change you are making possible, we want to share the story of another child whose life was changed through sponsorship. Meet Viviana. Viviana [...]
United Nations Report on Millennium Development Goals
I just got back from New York City where I participated in meetings connected with the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The UN corridor in mid-town Manhattan was under heightened security as 130 Heads of States (including President Obama) participated in the Assembly. A big focus of this gathering was a review of the progress made [...]
Impact story from Haiti – Marie-Nicole’s journey to a better life
In our last blog we described how Food for the Hungry has been working with local leaders in Haiti to raise awareness of child abuse and gender-based violence. This is the story of one such victim whose life was transformed by subsequent community intervention. Marie-Nicole’s trials She never smiled, talked or played. She had never [...]
The “Junk in my Trunk”
This weekend my wife and I moved from an apartment where we’ve spent the past two and half years into our first home. I’m still in pain! After hours and hours of packing up boxes, loading them into the moving truck and taking them off the moving truck, we are now at the overwhelming stage [...]
Hurricane season in Haiti – but don’t forget long-term community development
With Hurricane Isaac recently causing havoc in Haiti, it is a good time to reflect that even when Haiti is not in the news for storms or earthquakes, FH is active behind-the-scenes helping local leaders create healthy and disaster-resilient communities. One of these cases is Belladere, a town close to the border of the Dominican [...]
Freedom
It happened again today — FREEDOM! Believe it or not, an Excel spreadsheet made my day. Each Saturday morning I enter the figures from the receipts I’ve gathered in my wallet all week, into a sheet that keeps my household budget. My spread sheet divides my spending into about twelve categories and each receipt finds [...]
we all need love
It’s true. We do all need love. And sometimes this need, gone unfulfilled, leads us to search for it in places that leave our hearts feeling like the victim of a back-alley mugging. Sadly – there is boundless love waiting for each of us, if we’d only learn that we don’t have to earn it. [...]
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