We included letter writing for Bread For the World at our Second Saturday Servants activities yesterday.  A few of us wrote letters to Congress encouraging changes to make food aide more effective.

Here is a link to information on how you can join the letter writing campaign:  http://bread.org/

Below I am repeating a blog about Bread for the World from last year.

Bread For the World Institute published an excellent series of papers, called Development Works, in 2012. The first paper, in March 2012, focused on some questions we often hear:

How can it help hungry people overseas?

But what exactly is development assistance?

And why should we support funding for it when many Americans are facing hard times?

I recommend reading the paper:

Click to access dw-1.pdf

The summary is:

• Development assistance enables
people in poor countries to build a
better life for themselves and their
children.

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