Bread for the World Pressroom Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian citizens movement seeking justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers. Ten thousand people are expected to gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, April 9, to call for debt relief for the world's poorest countries. At the peaceful rally, participants will form a human chain from the Capitol to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund buildings, symbolizing how unpayable debt chains people to poverty.
Countries burdened by unpayable debt deserve a new beginning.
Children deserve to be free from malnutrition, to have basic health care, to have a chance at education. Their shoulders cannot and should not carry their country's burdens of debt. Many poor countries with large international debts divert important resources away from social programs like health care and education in order to service the debt. In Tanzania, for example, the government spends nine times more on foreign debt payments than on health care. Sunday's legal, non-violent event is part of the international Jubilee 2000 movement calling for the cancellation of poor country debt.