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July 13, 2022

Development and Peace targeting hunger with matching fund

People receive bags of relief grains at a camp for the internally displaced people in Adadle, Ethiopia, Jan. 22, 2022.

In a hungry world, Development and Peace is giving Canadian Catholics a chance to save lives. Using its partnership with Canadian Food Grains Bank, Canada’s Catholic development agency is taking advantage of an Ottawa matching fund to get money and the food it can buy to starving people.

Published in Canada
December 9, 2021

$75 million promised to take bite out of hunger

Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan.

It’s a hungry world and COVID has only sharpened those hunger pangs.

Published in Canada
November 30, 2014

Farming locally, helping globally

In 2013-2014, crops grown in Canada have raised over $6.5 million for the ecumenical aid group Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

Fifty years ago Len Kraemer was young, strong, intelligent and rural, which is why he was helping bring in a crop of hay on the family farm near Walkerton, Ont. As he jammed his gloves on harder and lifted bales of hay under the afternoon sun, young Kraemer started thinking about Africa.

Published in Features