Plantation communities are now fighting for their rights to land, education, housing and basic needs for a dignified life. While the tea plantations serve as the highest contributor to the national economy in Sri Lanka, plantation laborers continue to suffer from low wages, poor working conditions and deplorable living situations. The Struggle of Sri Lankan Plantation Communities for Land First, this huge popular movement made it clear that food sovereignty is now a matter of public discussion second, it has set an important precedent of unity in the people's movement around the food sovereignty agenda and lastly, this symbolic day was used to present the bill on Food Sovereignty, Security and Nutrition. Thousands marched in El Salvador on World Food Day to demand food sovereignty in El Salvador. World Food Day March Demonstrates Unity for Food Sovereignty in El Salvador More than 1000 Haitian women marched on the International Day of Rural Women, in Jérémie on the coast of the southern peninsula of Haiti, to shed light on the region’s needs to strengthen the role of women in agriculture and society, both locally and regionally. Please as you share this newsletter with people you think will be interested in it, encourage them to Subscribe. Once we join hands together, it is amazing how the world changes to resemble God’s vision for hope and for healing and an end to brokenness. We invite you to share this with friends and members of your community, so that more people will join us in our effort to address root causes of hunger and poverty in the New Year and beyond. Welcome to the final 2013 edition of the Joining Hands Newsletter. The post Joining Hands to Lend a Hand to Burkina Faso appeared first on Rise Against Hunger.You are receiving this email because you requested information about Joining Hands, an initiative of the Presbyterian Hunger Program Inspired to make an incredible impact? Visit our Get Involved page to find out how! Holy Family Whitefish Bay Meal Packaging Event, April 2019 ©Beth Algiers-Manley Their efforts have helped us provide nourishment for over 10,000 people in the past year alone. More important than the number of meals are the actual lives impacted. Through our partnership with CRS Helping Hands, we’ve been able to provide three containers of meals each year to Burkina Faso. You can read more about Ali’s story here. After overcoming leprosy, Ali has been able to find a home through CRS and ensure that his family will receive nutritious meals each day. Ali, his wife and five children live in Burkina Faso and receive Rise Against Hunger meals through CRS. Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa where one out of every five people are food insecure.Īli, a 53-year-old man, is one of the lives CRS Helping Hands made an impact on last year. Last year, CRS Helping Hands provided 1.6 million Rise Against Hunger meals to Burkina Faso. The Helping Hands program has a two-fold mission that aims to target hunger relief in the form of food aid and funding of long term hunger relief initiatives. Our partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Helping Hands, is one of those partnerships. Once in a while, a group comes along that goes the extra mile for our cause. Since our meal packaging program began in 2006, we’ve seen groups of all sizes, backgrounds and beliefs join together on one common ground: a passion for seeing a world without hunger and providing nutritious meals to people in critical need. Our volunteers are the heart of our mission to end hunger at Rise Against Hunger - we couldn’t impact millions of lives each year without them.
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