Fighting Hunger

Food Stamp Challenge 2007
Hunger. Food insecurity. These are abstract terms for most of us. We imagine. We theorize. But we haven’t experienced not knowing where our next meal will come from or if we'll have enough food in the cupboard to make it through the week. For more than 35 million Americans, this situation is all too real—and 700,000 of them are Oregonians.

What is it really like to be hungry? Most of us have never known. But now you may have a small experience of what it's like.

Join Governor Ted Kulongoski in taking the food stamp challenge. Experience the challenge of eating nutritious meals on $3 a day. Learn the difficulty of poverty by living on a food stamp budget for one week.
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Part of the Solution to Hunger
by Kelly Carlisle, member at Creator, Principal at Milwaukie High School
Let’s get “fired up!” At Creator Lutheran Church in Clackamas, a group of concerned individuals began a Hunger Awareness Team, helping to get folks at Creator “fired up” to do more purposeful outreach. The team’s title expresses their mission: to increase the awareness of hunger locally and globally, and to help us hear God’s call to action. Because the church is surrounded by tremendous growth and some fairly affluent neighborhoods, it would be easy for people there to become insulated from poverty, hunger, and homelessness. Because of this, the Hunger Awareness Team has determined to help people at Creator see themselves as part of the solution to hunger. People have indeed gotten fired up!
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The Oregon Faith Roundtable Against Hunger OFRAH
seeks to explore the complexities of hunger by engaging diverse religious communities throughout the state in direct service and in developing solutions to the root causes of hunger through education and public policy.
Norene Goplen, Lead Convener

Hunger Leader Ideas
Fair Trade Chocolate & Valentine's Day fund-raiser: 
Word  |  PDF    (Lisa Wenzlick)

Advocacy tips:  Word  |  PDF    (Lisa Wenzlick)