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2016 Bread for the World Lobby Day: June 7, 2016
Photo from 2015 Lobby Day with Sen. Toomey Staff Member and the PA Bread Delegation.
SW PA Bread Member Jennifer Lawer is pictured second from the right. Photo courtesy of Bread For the World
Throughout the month of May the Southwest Pennsylvania Bread for the World team has scheduled lobby visits in the local offices of PA U.S. Senators and Representatives to seek their support on funding for international child and material nutrition programs.
The SW PA Bread for the World members and allies will follow up these visits with a trip to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, June 7. There we will participate in the Annual National Bread Lobby Day. We plan to meet with our U.S. Legislators and their staffs along with our Bread Colleagues from Pennsylvania and around the country in a united push for funding for these important and effective programs that can be successful in reducing malnutrition among the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Around those visits, Bread holds a morning gathering and orientation at a church on Capitol Hill. Bread staff assists participants in setting up meetings with the offices of members of Congress. The day will end with a reception, worship, participants sharing about the day, and awards given to legislators. Group travel will be arranged to depart on Monday, June 6, returning the evening of June 7.
Lobby Day is for activists of all types - those who are new to in-person lobbying in our nation's capital, those who are veterans of it, as well as anyone with experience between those ends of the spectrum.
To get involved with the regional efforts of Bread for the World including possible participation in the 2016 lobbying meetings, contact me at 412-780-5118 or by email at rothermeljoyce@gmail.com All are welcome to our planning meeting on Wed., May 4 at 10 AM at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
Joyce Rothermel is Co-Chair of the SW PA Bread for the World Team.