Hunger Rumblings

ELCA World Hunger staff and associates write about root causes of hunger, current events, and anything else they find pertinent.

12 Days of Green & Good Christmas

Posted on December 2, 2008 by admin

You’ll want to share the CSR “12 Days of Christmas” link with your networks. Don’t forget to click on the star on the top of the tree to learn about make-a-difference gifts.
Here’s another tip: Sign up for the Shareholders Network e-Newsletter and receive e-mail alerts about faith-based investing, corporate social responsibility, and resources (like the annual “12 Days of Christmas” list). Let’s see if we can help Pat and Patty add at least 120 new participants to the Shareholders Network. Advent blessings, Sue

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In this season of hope and wonder the Corporate Social Responsibility program has put together a list of resources that you may find helpful. Please visit the “The 12 Days of Christmas“.

World AIDS Day

Posted on December 1, 2008 by admin

Today is the 20th annual World AIDS Day, a day when individuals and organizations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic.

AIDS and hunger are closely intertwined. AIDS is rapidly spreading in the most impoverished areas of the world—places where education, women’s and children’s rights, and peace are hard to come by. Many areas, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, are trapped in a vicious cycle in which the symptoms of poverty facilitate the spread of the disease while the lives and productivity lost to the pandemic further impoverish vulnerable communities. Moreover, AIDS is especially devastating to hungry persons. Malnourished persons cannot take anti-retroviral drugs—an empty stomach cannot handle the powerful medicine. In the absence of drugs and adequate nutrition, HIV develops into AIDS more quickly. Once a person has AIDS, more food is needed to fight the illness and counteract weight loss.

Back in August, ELCA World Hunger sent representatives to the 17th International AIDS Conference. Over the next few days we’ll be posting some of their insights gleaned from the experience. Today, let us recommit ourselves to living for the most vulnerable people in own world.

-David Creech

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