Global Food Crisis Fund distributes $90,000 for hunger relief.

The General Board's Global Food Crisis Fund (GFCF) has issued three large grants for hunger relief in North Korea, El Salvador, and Angola.

The GFCF allocated $50,000 to continue support for a longterm international farm rehabilitation project in North Korea. The project encompasses 24,000 acres across three coastal and inland counties, and involves four large farm cooperatives. The first $60,000 GFCF grant toward this effort in Jan. 2004 supported early planting of barley and rice; this new grant will help provide new and additional grain and vegetables along with material for protective covering of the crops.

In other grants the GFCF gave $20,000 to support Iglesia Bautista Emmanuel in an irrigation and water conservation project in the San Simon area of El Salvador, which will help ten communities with water management, growing crops, fruit tree cultivation, reforestation, and education. In Angola, the fund gave $20,000 to support SHARECircle in the agricultural phase of its post-war construction work. The funds will go toward equipping and training 10,000 family farmers with tools to grow grains and vegetables and will assist with water management and infrastructure.

For more information about the Global Food Crisis Fund, see www.brethren.org.

Source: Newsline 3/16/05
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