Housing for very low income seniors in Lynnwood Area is only one of the many needs to care for those who have the least among us. Here are some other Resources for Individual Action to Impact Global Poverty
Resources
- Always…Therefore: The Church’s Challenge of Global Poverty DVD www.acaciaresources.com or 615-627-7766 Acacia Resources, a division of Baptist Center for Ethics.
- Baptist World Aid, an arm of Baptist World Alliance for for current projects, stories and information about donating: www.bwanet.org/BWAid/index.htm
- Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger: www.bgct.org/texasbaptists/Page.aspx?&pid=1225&srcid=2391
- World Vision, World relief, development and advocacy organization: www.worldvision.org
- For youth about world hunger and fasting www.30hourfamine.org
- Micah Challenge, for an overview, updates, additional information and resources: www.micahchallenge.org/global/home/into.html
- Bread for the World Seeking Justice, Ending Hunger www.bread.org
- Links to anti hunger and poverty organizations www.bread.org/learn/links.html
- Seattle Bread for the World”meets 3rd Tuesday at Bethel Lutheran Church 8th St NE & 175th Street, Shoreline
- Millennium Campaign: The role of faith communities in defeating global poverty www.millenniumcampaign.org
- International Alliance Against Hunger: www.iaahp.net
- Fight Hunger: Organizing walks for world hunger on May 13, 2007 www.fighthunger.org
- Global Empowerment, like World Vision for justice: www.globalempowerment.org
- One Shared World–Campaign to raise awareness of global poverty and generate dialogue www.onesharedworld.org
- McGovern, George, The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001.
- Heifer International www.heifer.org
- DATA-Debt Aids Trade Africa: DATA aims to raise awareness about, and spark response to the crises swamping Africa: unpayable Debts, uncontrolled spread of AIDS, and unfair Trade rules which keep Africans poor. www.data.org
- ONE a volunteer organization to lobby the US Government to allocating an additional 1 percent of the US Budget to help fight poverty and hunger. www.one.org/about
- American Baptist Churches USA National Ministries Disaster Response, including programs for Haiti, the Katrina Effort, and response to the Philippine Tsunami  http://www.nationalministries.org/disaster_response/
- His Nets–preventing malaria in sub-Saharan Africa to help meet Millennium Development Goals www.hisnets.org/home.html
- Africa Exchange–a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship which exchanges information and resources across cultures to positively affect hunger and education www.africaexchange.org
- The Baptist Center for Ethics website–it’s mission is to provide proactive, positive and practical ethics resources and services to congregations. www.ethicsdaily.com
- 99 Organizations to Fight Poverty and Hunger: http://mswonlineprograms.org/poverty-hunger/