Canadian Interest
Preschoolers Learn Empathy and Help End Poverty
Can preschoolers make a difference? These preschool children from Vernon, BC, grew plants to fundraise money to help families break the cycle of poverty. In the process, they learned empathy.
Refining Moments for Canadian Youth
When you look at the state of the world, do you see hope for the next generation? Alycia does. As the Youth and Young Adults Pastor at New Life Church in Duncan, B.C., she has a front-row seat to the next generation of Jesus-followers in Canada.
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.
Welcome to Ukhia, Bangladesh
Have you ever heard of Ukhia, Bangladesh? Chances are you have, you just might not have realized it at the time. Ukhia is home to Cox's Bazar, where you'll find the world's largest refugee camp. In 2017, over 700,000 Rohingya refugees poured into the region, triggering a humanitarian crisis that continues today. Ukhia is one of the poorest sub-districts in Bangladesh and the sudden influx of refugees placed stress on already strained resources. FH Bangladesh has a medical program in the Rohingya camps, but after seeing the need in the host community, felt called to respond with an additional program. And so, Food for the Hungry's partnership with four communities in Ukhia was born in late 2021!
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.
Book Review: No Future Without Forgiveness
No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu focuses on events following the end of Apartheid during and surrounding the initial years (1995 to 1998) of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission—the first of its kind. President Nelson Mandela named Former Archbishop Desmond Tutu the commission’s Chairperson
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!