Rice Raiser Campaign 2007
16 October 2006
Campaign dates: February 12 – March 5
The Rice Raiser is growing
The Rice Raiser is entering its second year and schools are responding. Schools that participated last year are signing up and schools just hearing about the campaign in other cities are also planning to join. Let us know if your school would like to take part so we can provide you with the information tools and support to help you run a successful campaign.
More businesses and community groups are coming on board and showing their support. Lists will soon be available. If you have a business or belong to a community group or club and would like to participate please call us. We’ll gladly show your support to the world through our website.
While the Rice Raiser is a Canadian initiative, we welcome our American friends to join us. Our partnering organizations are able to issue you USA tax receipts for your donations. And remember, all the rice you collect in your own communities stays in your own communities and feeds people through your local food bank!
New global projects
Indonesia
Hunger is HIV/AIDS related.
Goal is to provide rice and eggs for HIV/AIDS infected people and their families through a volunteer group of health care workers called the Jayapura Support Group.
Partner: MCC (Mennonite Central Committee)
Honduras
Food Sustainability for Women and Youth
Project to compose of 81 women and 300 youth to educate, train and provide necessary provisions for farming ensuring food security and increase family incomes in the future. This is a two for one CIDA match program.
Partner: Cause Canada
Zambia
Relief Food – Hunger due to sever poverty
For 1000 people who live in extreme poverty ($.25 day) assistance with food is desperately needed. Goal is to provide food distribution for a period of time between harvests so that the villagers will not have to leave their gardens, but can stay and tend them resulting in greater yields.
Partner: Hungry for Life
Haiti
Relief Food – Hunger due to political instability and natural disasters (drought or flooding)
The least developed country in the Western Hemisphere with 80% of the population living in abject poverty. Many people eat only once a day and often times only once every two days. We want to provide relief food (rice) for 60 of the poorest families in the city of Laraque where 60% of its people are under 18 years of age.
Partner: Hungry for Life
Working Together
It is thrilling to know that through working together we will be able to help many hungry and struggling people in these countries in just a few short months. What a motivator!