Category: Humanitarian Aid

• In Gratitude for USAID

  

  An open-letter to my representatives in Congress (Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Eric Schmitt, and Congressman Sam Graves) about how one USAID program may have saved my husband’s life.

  Jennie

  January 30, 2025

  Advocacy, Humanitarian Aid, Jennie’s Posts, Sudan, USA

  Congress, Eric Schmitt, Famine, gratitude, Humanitarian Aid, Josh Hawley, Sam Graves, Sudan, USAID

• USAID’s Work in Sudan Saved My Husband’s Village

  

  USAID saved lives with emergency food that reached my husband’s village during famine. One friend in his village, born in the 1980s, is named “Reagan” – in honor of the President who began sending U.S.-farmed sorghum to keep Sudanese people alive. My husband, who was just learning to read English, clearly remembered reading “FROM THE…

  Jennie

  January 28, 2025

  Cross-Posts, Humanitarian Aid, South Sudan, Sudan, USA

  Famine, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, State Department, Sudan, USAID

• International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

  

  The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is marked annually on the 29th of November. This year, amidst utter destruction, the world’s gaze is on Gaza, where mothers are too hungry to breastfeed, and aid trucks can scarcely deliver. Cross-post from Vatican News.

  Jennie

  November 29, 2024

  Church, Cross-Posts, Humanitarian Aid, Israel-Palestine

  Displacement, Humanitarian Aid, Internally Displaced People, Israel, Palestine, Refugees, Stateless, UNWRA

• Press Conference Marking 70th Anniversary of Korean Armistice

  

  Top military, geopolitics experts and Korea peace advocates join Reps. Barbara Lee, Jan Schakowsky, and Judy Chu to call for a formal peace agreement with North Korea.

  Jennie

  July 29, 2023

  Cross-Posts, Humanitarian Aid, Korea, Korea Peace Now Grassroots Network, Militarism, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace, USA, Video