Offering of Letters 2009
Check out this great post from our friends at Bread for the World!
-Rosie
Foreign aid works. Watch this video from Bread for the World to see how well it works.
It’s changed the lives of Ronald Kegoli, an HIV-positive passion fruit farmer in Kenya, and Nubia Baca, a widowed rancher in Nicaragua.
It doesn’t work as well as it could, though. The U.S. Foreign Assistance Act, passed in 1961, now encompasses 33 different goals, 75 priority areas, and 247 directives. And that’s not all: Foreign aid is executed by at least 12 departments, 25 different agencies, and almost 60 government offices. Take a look; it’ll make your head spin.
But guess what else works? Advocacy. Speaking out to your elected leaders in Congress. If you contact them, they listen.
Bread for the World’s Offering of Letters 2009 is urging Congress to rework U.S. foreign assistance to make it more effective in reducing poverty. We have the tools to help you educate yourself on this topic and be a strong advocate as you speak out for hungry and poor people. Visit www.bread.org/OL2009 to learn more.
This is our chance to make something our nation has been doing well even better. Help us flood congressional offices with letters. Make yourself heard. Change lives.
It really is that simple.
-Kimberly Burge, Bread for the World
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