The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund

Food Crisis Stories

PWRDF is Part of Sahel Food Crisis Response

Mother and Child in Niger
Africa Stories, Featured, Food Crisis Stories, Stories by Region

PWRDF, as a member of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, is part of a major $10.9 million response to the ongoing food crisis in the Sahel …

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Archbishop Hiltz Visits PWRDF Project in Solomon Islands

Archbishop Hilts at the Garanga Farm
Asia Pacific Stories, Featured, Food Crisis Stories, Solomon Islands, Stories by Region

In 2004, the Diocese of Ysabel, a PWRDF partner in the Solomon Islands, broke ground on a new farm on the island of Garanga.  Over …

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Saving Livelihoods in the Sahel

CFGB Logo
Africa Stories, Emergency Response Stories, Food Crisis Stories

PWRDF has committed $50,000 to a project in conjunction with the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) in Niger.  …

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A Growing Balcony

Elide Barthole working in her balcony garden in Carrefour, Haiti.  Photo: Simon Chambers
Emergency Response Stories, Food Crisis Stories, Haiti Earthquake, Latin America Caribbean Stories, Stories by Region

Elide Barthole is lucky to still be living in her home in Carrefour, Haiti.  Over half the homes in her community were destroyed in the …

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Hot Lunches for Haiti

Volunteer cooks at L'Ecole National Trouin.  Photo: Simon Chambers
Emergency Response Stories, Featured, Food Crisis Stories, Haiti Earthquake, Latin America Caribbean Stories, Stories by Region

It’s hard to study with an empty stomach.  Ask the students at L’Ecole National Trouin in the mountains near Léogâne, Haiti about the difference a …

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