Wow!: New York woman loses job, leads pantry feeding thousands
LUIS ANDRES HENAO, of Associated Press, profiles the work of New Yorker Sofia Moncayo, who has led a food distribution program through her church, Mosaic West Queens Church, which has fed thousands during the coronavirus pandemic…
Trained in rebuilding after disasters, North Carolina Baptists now distribute food boxes
RNS They’re best known for their post-hurricane disaster relief efforts – ripping up homes damaged by floodwaters and rehabilitating them from the studs. But in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Baptists on Mission, an auxiliary of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, is remaking itself as a food distribution network, delivering boxes of produce […]
US Government hears woeful testimony from ‘heirs’ property’ owners
Washington, DCThomson Reuters Foundation Property heirs last week described to government officials the lengthy court cases, tense family disputes and expensive legal research required to keep property that was rightfully theirs, amid generations of land loss. The stories were shared at the second of two “listening sessions” on what is known as heirs’ property, as […]
Malnutrition the “challenge of our time”, say award winners
Thomson Reuters Foundation Malnutrition is the “challenge of our time”, with diet-related disease afflicting almost every country in the world, the winners of a $US250,000 prize dubbed the Nobel for agriculture said on Monday. David Nabarro and Lawrence Haddad, who were jointly awarded this year’s World Food Prize, are jointly credited with cutting the number of stunted […]