Bread for the World 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. This year's World Food Day comes during a year of significant global focus on hunger and poverty. The worldwide Jubilee movement has been working to relieve the debt that traps millions of people in the world's poorest countries in a cycle of hunger and poverty.
Debt relief is hunger relief.
Countries strained by heavy, unpayable debts are not able to meet their people's basic needs. Major legislation is pending in both houses of Congress that would cancel much of the poor-country debt owed to the United States. Each measure also contains provisions to ensure that the savings from debt relief will go toward poverty reduction and sustainable growth. In the House, the Banking Committee and International Relations Committee are scheduled to mark up companion legislation, HR 1095, the Debt Relief for Poverty Reduction Act in the near future. In Africa, governments are sending four times more to international creditors than they spend on education, according to the United Nations Development Program.