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Life: A seamless garment

By on June 7, 2013 in From Our Leadership, Stories, World Poverty

The French philosopher, Voltaire, wrote: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Atrocities are atrocious, because they violate what the Declaration of Independence describes as the human right to life. We usually think of atrocities as acts of commission. They are bad things that people do to other people. The [...]

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Dave Evans with community leaders

Stay the course

By on May 8, 2013 in From Our Leadership, World Poverty

While I was swimming, biking and running during a half ironman triathlon last October, I constantly faced at least one of two main obstacles: time and fatigue. Both of these challenges nearly took me down during the swim portion of the event. My time was so poor that I battled against the clock during the [...]

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The purpose of the poor

By on April 22, 2013 in From Our Leadership, World Poverty

We are all familiar, to some extent, with the plight of the materially poor. However, in the grand scheme of things—do the poor have a positive purpose? According to a respected colleague from Kenya, who is a committed Christian and a successful businessman, the purpose of the poor is the elevation of all humanity. He came to [...]

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Boston bombing: Will you help or hide?

By on April 16, 2013 in From Our Leadership, Stories, World Poverty

If we needed more evidence that we live and work in a broken world, the Boston marathon bombing was a rude reminder. Food for the Hungry (FH) is called to serve the most vulnerable of this world. Doing so by definition takes us into parts of the world where senseless death and destruction are regular occurrences. [...]

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Ethiopia Grain Distribution

We can’t gamble with lives for so-called food aid reform

By on April 9, 2013 in From Our Leadership

As we near President Obama’s budget submission, many in the international aid community are concerned about reports that U.S. food aid to the most vulnerable is at risk. Specifically the program called Food for Peace is reported as being cut from the president’s budget. The changes proposed are being called “reforms” however the result is a [...]

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Dave and Medlinda Evans

Melinda Evans: Celebrating her passion to love God and her neighbor

By on April 8, 2013 in From Our Leadership

“When I saw the announcement in the Food for the Hungry (FH) newsletter, I did a double take: David Evans and his family become Hunger Corps staff in Guatemala. I wondered how such an erroneous announcement could have possibly made it through the editors of the newsletter. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that [...]

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Hope and courage

By on March 28, 2013 in Church, From Our Leadership, Stories, World Poverty

On March 21, Food for the Hungry (FH) hosted our Hope and Courage conference with participation from Phoenix pastors and church leaders and FH staff from all over the world.  One of our keynote speakers was Anglican Bishop Laurent Mbanda, who is bishop of the Shyira Diocese in northern Rwanda. Mbanda (as he prefers to be called) [...]

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Dave Evans, Food for the Hungry U.S. President, prays for Senator Lindsay Graham

Inspiring hope to end poverty

By on March 13, 2013 in From Our Leadership, Stories

Her name is Gize. It means “time.” When she became a participant several years ago in Food for the Hungry’s (FH’s) USAID-funded program in Alaba, Ethiopia, Gize was unfortunately running out time. Another year of bad rains had combined with astronomical food prices, forcing her to sell the family ox, rent out her land to [...]

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Feeling lost in today’s world?

By on March 12, 2013 in From Our Leadership, Sponsor Impact, Stories, World Poverty

A funny thing happened when I went to help change the conditions of the poor in Africa. I was changed. Twenty years ago, I moved to post-war Uganda to do my part to help. What I came to realize was: God’s call for me to meet the needs of the poor also involved His desire to transform my life. [...]

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Photo of a woman in the Democratice Republic of the Congo

“The worst place on earth to be a woman”

By on February 25, 2013 in From Our Leadership, World Poverty

On March 7, 2012, the PBS NewsHour ran a piece with this title about women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  Food for the Hungry (FH) has been working there since the eastern part of the country’s descent into hell in the mid-1990s.  For women in the DRC, March 8th, International Women’s Day, is [...]

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