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Haiti – Restoring lives after Hurricane Isaac

By on October 23, 2012 in Disaster Relief

The effects of Isaac Tropical Storm Isaac swept through Haiti at the end of August, flooding homes and damaging the livelihoods of many communities where Food for the Hungry (FH) is operational. In the days following the storm, FH staff in Haiti visited affected communities to assess the damage and to determine how FH could [...]

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The Berchmans family by their home

Beyond survival in the world’s poorest country

By on October 18, 2012 in Disaster Relief, Stories, World Poverty

The International Food Policy Research Institute released its 2012 Global Hunger Index in October, and Burundi, Africa, received the dubious distinction of being the world’s poorest country. The report combines three indicators to rank world poverty by country. Those indicators are the percent of the population: Who are undernourished; Are under weight as young children; [...]

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Flooding in Bangladesh left families homeless

“The river moved so quickly … all we could do was run”

By on September 28, 2012 in Disaster Relief, Stories, World Poverty

  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 [...]

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Two Stories of National Pride

By on June 29, 2012 in Disaster Relief, Stories, World Poverty

Americans will celebrate the 236th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, and the world’s newest country, South Sudan, celebrates its one-year anniversary as an independent nation just five days later on July 9. While the celebrations will differ by culture, a common theme will be national pride, well expressed in each national anthem. United States of [...]

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