Global Projects for 2007
9 February 2007
The Rice Raiser has been growing and generating a lot of support. We are grateful to everyone who has expressed their interest in changing the situation of hunger in our own communities and around the world. This year, we are working with Hungry for Life International, Mennonite Central Committee BC and CAUSE Canada to focus on the problem of hunger in four countries: Indonesia, Honduras, Zambia and Haiti.
Indonesia
Hunger is HIV/AIDS related.
Goal is to provide rice and eggs for HIV/AIDS infected people and their families through a volunteer group of health care workers called the Jayapura Support Group.
Partner: MCC (Mennonite Central Committee)
Honduras
Food Sustainability for Women and Youth
Project to compose of 81 women and 300 youth to educate, train and provide necessary provisions for farming ensuring food security and increase family incomes in the future.
This is a two for one CIDA match program.
Partner: Cause Canada
Zambia
Relief Food – Hunger due to sever poverty
For 1000 people who live in extreme poverty ($.25 day) assistance with food is desperately needed. Goal is to provide food distribution for a period of time between harvests so that the villagers will not have to leave their gardens, but can stay and tend them resulting in greater yields.
Partner: Hungry for Life
Haiti
Relief Food – Hunger due to political instability and natural disasters (drought or flooding)
The least developed country in the Western Hemisphere with 80% of the population living in abject poverty. Many people eat only once a day and often times only once every two days. We want to provide relief food (rice) for 60 of the poorest families in the city of Laraque where 60% of its people are under 18 years of age.
Partner: Hungry for Life
It is thrilling to know that through working together we will be able to help many hungry and struggling people in these countries in just a few short months. What a motivator!