{"id":934,"date":"2010-02-16T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/?p=934"},"modified":"2010-02-16T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:39:38","slug":"building-momentu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/building-momentu\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/hungerrumblings\/2010\/02\/giving-to-charity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-935\" title=\"giving-to-charity\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/hungerrumblings\/2010\/02\/giving-to-charity-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2010\/02\/giving-to-charity-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2010\/02\/giving-to-charity-250x183.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2010\/02\/giving-to-charity.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Shortly after I joined the ELCA World Hunger team, I learned a funny little saying: &#8220;Lutherans love a disaster.&#8221; \u00a0Of course, the idea behind the maxim is that Lutherans respond generously to disasters. \u00a0 In the month since the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti, the saying has proved true as members of the ELCA have given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/Who-We-Are\/Our-Three-Expressions\/Churchwide-Organization\/Communication-Services\/News\/Releases.aspx#&amp;&amp;a=4447\">more than $4.6 million<\/a> to aid in the recovery. So far, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.charitynavigator.org\/2010\/02\/how-much-charities-have-spent-in-haiti.html\">more than$471 million<\/a> from around the world has been sent in response to the tragedy. \u00a0The outpouring of love and concern (and <a href=\"https:\/\/community.elca.org\/NetCommunity\/SSLPage.aspx?pid=538\">tangible gifts!<\/a>) is inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy unfolding in Haiti has received a lot of press (and, to a certain extent, rightfully so). \u00a0As noted by economist and poverty specialist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/econ-www.mit.edu\/faculty\/eduflo\/short\">Esther Duflo<\/a> in a fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED talk<\/a>, every year about 9 million children under age 5 die every year. \u00a0That is equal to the death toll of the earthquake in Haiti every <em>eight<\/em> days. \u00a0Every eight days hundreds of thousands of children die from poverty. \u00a0The tragedy is that these deaths are largely preventable.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me back to the generosity of Lutherans across the United States. \u00a0In one short month, we pooled our resources and gave out of our abundance more than $4.6 million. \u00a0If we continued in our commitment to the global disaster of hunger and poverty at the same rate for the rest of the year, we would gather more than $55 million to put towards relief, development, education, and advocacy. \u00a0This would nearly triple our current financial commitment.<\/p>\n<p>What decisions did you make this last month to help those suffering in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti? \u00a0Could those same decisions be made for a year?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; David Creech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after I joined the ELCA World Hunger team, I learned a funny little saying: &#8220;Lutherans love a disaster.&#8221; \u00a0Of course, the idea behind the maxim is that Lutherans respond generously to disasters. \u00a0 In the month since the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti, the saying has proved true as members of the ELCA have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-giving"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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