Canadian Interest
6 Ideas for Fundraising with Kids
Fundraising is a great way to cultivate compassion and empower children to bring about change. Here are six ways you can fundraise with your kids, Sunday School class, or homeschool group.
5 Ways to Practice Lent for Others
This year, the world approaches Lent—the six week season between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday—with a heightened sense of sorrow and fear. Our world is on fire—again. Instead of COVID-19, it’s war, inflation, mass hunger, unemployment, and political instability. If ever we needed to turn our eyes to Jesus and prepare our hearts to celebrate and affirm his resurrection power, it’s now! If ever we needed to long for his return, it’s today.
The Great Admin Rate Debate
If you’re like most Canadians, the admin rate (i.e. the percentage of donations spent on administration and overhead) comes out somewhere on top. In some ways this is fabulous, and in some ways–perhaps surprisingly–it is not.
5 Summer Reads You Can't Put Down
One of the best ways to expand our horizons is to get inside the mind and experiences of other cultures through their own storytelling. This list takes us on a tour of the Middle East, Africa, Central America, and right back home to Canada
Open Homes and Ice Cream Cones: Creating everyday habits of generosity
When Ali and David, a young couple with two daughters under two, received an early inheritance from his grandparents, they began thinking about the legacy they wanted to leave. Ali had seen generosity exemplified in the lives of her family and in-laws in many forms—like welcoming homes and ice cream cones—and she realized there is no better time than the present to create habits of generosity.
3 Items to Purge for Social Justice
Behind the items we use everyday is a disturbing reality: child labour has tainted many Canadian household products.
Try This Easter Prayer With Your Family
One of our favourite things about Easter Sunday is the table feast.
A Presidential Chat: FH Canada welcomes a new leader
After 13 years with Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada, and over five years serving as our President and CEO, Shawn Plummer is saying farewell.
Why Was Jesus Born In Poverty?
I enjoy the Christmas season. Such a wonderful time to be with family and friends, sing Christmas carols, watch your favourite Christmas movies, and eat lots of delicious food. But ultimately Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the King.
Pollyanne Paints for Water
Can you paint? Bake? Fix cars? Whatever your talent, you can use it to fundraise for things you really care about. Pollyanne raises money for water.
22 Reasons We're Proudly Canadian
What makes Canada so awesome? Is it our peace-loving nature, outstanding food, or crazy generous hearts? Yes, and 19 more reasons!
The Beauty of Brokenness
Good mental health is critical to the fight to end poverty - both here, and abroad! Elaine learned the hard way, but God was faithful to lift her up.
What's Faith Got to do With It?
There can be a tendency to stereotype people of faith, and while this is inevitable, it can still be painful. At FH Canada, we see all forms of poverty as rooted in all forms of broken relationships. We, therefore, make the focus of our work walking with others, rather than on an ideology that can alienate.
Kids Cash in for Charity Gifts
How many bottles does it take to buy a $25 Pair of Chickens?
Enough Soap to Stock a Stable
How some kids are fundraising to end poverty - they're never too young to make a difference!
25 Years of Ending Poverty
Food for the Hungry was established in the U.S. in 1971. Two decades later FH Canada launched our unique approach to ending poverty together!
Will Space Unicorns Make Your Child Happy?
Canadians spend over 400 million dollars at Christmas time every year, but is it making us or our children any happier? It might be time to rethink the gifts we give and consider the correlation between rising debt and rising anxiety.
A Dinnertime Prayer
We pray before we eat a meal together. Often, my three-and-a-half-year-old volunteers to “say grace”. She’s perfected the art of a two second prayer to get us to eating as quickly as possible. “Dear Jesus, thank you for this food, you bless it to our bodies, in Jesus name, amen.” And while I always want to encourage her to pray, it can be somewhat lacking in sincerity. So, sometimes I insist on me or my husband praying.