What is the task of the Presbyterian Hunger Program?
• Direct Food Relief, which provides food relief to hungry people, both in this nation and throughout the world. When possible, it works through well-planned food assistance programs of ecumenical agencies, most often supplementing those food resources available through government and international agencies, but initiating food relief programs when necessary. • Development Assistance, which supports the church’s community-based hunger-related development programs. It encourages those programs that combat hunger through integrated development and the empowerment of people, both in this country and throughout the world, in such areas as agricultural training, community organization, economic development and nutrition education. • Public Policy Advocacy, which supports policy changes that will provide food for poor and hungry people at home and abroad, and empower their self-development, and enabling them, by just and peaceful means, to be free from oppressive and unjust systems that fail
