Global Food Crisis
I don’t know how much you have read about the global food crisis that is currently happening but the need is massive and the poor are suffering. A combination of natural disasters, rising oil prices, and a reduction in staple food items like rice are ravaging families who were already struggling to buy food for their family. Because of these factors inflation has kicked in and caused food prices to soar over the past few months. This rise in food prices triggered the recent outbreak of violence in Haiti and in Bangladesh the cost of a kilo of rice went from $.31 to $.56 in less than 3 months. Most of these families living in poverty earn less than $2 per day and most of them are skipping meals because of the increase in costs.
As a family we have committed to do something small that can make a big difference in the lives of families very much like us around the world. Here is our plan:
1) Take 10% of our food budget each week and give that money directly to the Compassion Food Crisis Fund. We have $300 budgeted for each week on all food/restaurant/vegetable co-op related items and we will give $30 each week to help these families.
2) Spend one meal a week eating rice and learning about the different countries and families affected by this crisis. I will write a weekly guide for each week with stories from these countries and their specific needs so we can end that weekly meal praying for those in that specific country.
This is not money that we are diverting from our tithe. We feel led to take this money directly from money that we would normally spend on food.
Spread this idea and let’s join together to send thousands of dollars this summer to those in the most desperate of situations
Join us in spending this summer sacrificing some of our food so that others can feed their families. Email me at bseay@us.ci.org to sign up for the weekly email/prayer guide.
in. we have already cut our grocery bill to about 50 bucks a week, but we haven’t done anything special with that money.
i love this idea. well, both of them. we’re going to join in the 10% thing + the rice meal. we thought about that this week, and want to begin doing that. thanks man!
Would you consider publishing/posting your weekly guides for the rest of us who would like to join you?
We are in. Thanks for the ideas.
We already have the most minimalistic food budget, but we will try to see what God would like to do with that. We are completely in for the rice for a meal… and then looking and learning about others. We homeschool, so it will be great on so many levels. I think that we will take a jar and put any change in it that we have and save up to give too.
[...] Brian, another blogger who works for Compassion, is sending out a weekly guide highlighting a country and the state of their current food crisis. This week was Haiti. Here are just a few highlights from this week: [...]