Newsline: Global Food Crisis Fund showcases projects for holiday giving

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Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service, News Director Cheryl
Brumbaugh-Cayford, 800-323-8039 ext. 260, cobnews@brethren.org

Global Food Crisis Fund showcases projects for holiday giving

(Nov. 3, 2011) Elgin, IL -- The Global Food Crisis Fund (GFCF) has launched a 
web page showcasing projects for alternative gift giving this holiday season. 
Go to www.brethren.org/gfcfgive.

"Reach out your soul to the hungry," says an invitation. "Honor loved ones by 
giving a gift in their name to the Global Food Crisis Fund. By doing so you and 
the recipient will be teamed with smallholder farmers in developing 
countries...equip those who are underfed to feed themselves...promote sound 
nutrition...and invest in efforts to conserve water, regenerate the soil, and 
nurture sustainability."

The "Gift-giving that Sustains Lives" page offers options for donating at a 
variety of levels from $10 to $500. Gifts will meet needs in local communities 
in a number of different countries, such as village wells to provide drinking 
water and irrigation in Niger, or super-flour mix for mothers and infants in 
Nepal. A gift of $67 helps those affected by famine in the Horn of Africa, 
buying three months of maize, plus beans, oil, salt, and Unimix supplementary 
porridge for families with children under five.

In other news, a Global Food Crisis Fund grant of $5,000 is helping publish the 
2012 Hunger Report of partner organization Bread for the World, titled 
"Rebalancing Act: Updating US Food and Farm Policies." The report launches Nov. 
21, on the eve of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (Super 
Committee) release of recommendations to cut $1.2 trillion in government 
spending in 10 years. After that date, copies can be requested from GFCF 
manager Howard Royer at 800-323-8039 ext. 264, while supplies last. For more 
about the Global Food Crisis Fund go to www.brethren.org/gfcf. 

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>For more information contact:

>Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
>Director of News Services
>Church of the Brethren
>1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120
>800-323-8039 ext. 260
>cobnews@brethren.org