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Bread for the World Focus for 2016

  • Joyce Rothermel
  • Mar 16, 2016
  • 2 min read

For over 40 years, letters to Congress have helped drive the progress we've made against hunger domestically and internationally. This year’s Bread for the World Offering of Letters to Congress will focus on the nutrition and health of mothers and children. We are asking Congress to support robust funding in this year's appropriations bill for nutrition and health for mothers, newborns, and young children.

As Congress begins determining next year's funding priorities, it is important for your members of Congress to hear from us with letters early in the year. The world has made tremendous progress against hunger, but when the scourge of malnutrition takes too many precious lives or saps potential, it is clear that we have more work to do. Asking our government to be a leader in global nutrition means we are helping to bring about the vision of a world without hunger. Learn more at www.bread.org

While it is advantageous to write our letters as individuals, it can make an even greater impact when we gather to write our letters and multiply the message. This year, the SW PA Bread for the World Team is again organizing a workshop to assist us in the effort. We invite you to join us on Saturday, April 2, 2016 for this year’s Bread for the World Regional Workshop. It will be held again this year at Christ United Methodist Church, 44 Highland Road in Bethel Park. Beginning at 9 AM the Workshop will start with a morning session on the theme of the 2016 Annual Bread for the World Offering of Letters and be followed by a box lunch. (The cost of the box lunch is $8 when requested in pre-workshop registration. The workshop will continue with an optional afternoon session on the topic of immigration and its relationship to domestic and international hunger and how to get involved. Barbara Bower, a Pittsburgh immigration attorney, will lead the session scheduled to conclude at 2:30 PM. To find out more about the workshop and the SW PA Bread for the World Team, call Jeanna-Mar Simmons at 412-835-6621 x109.

Joyce Rothermel is a Co-Chair of the SW PA Bread Team.

 
 
 

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