Over the past year I have been working closely with Catholic organizations active all across the United States to try to encourage their work to end hunger. This process has filled me with a great amount of hope. It seems that every day I hear stories of Catholics doing amazing, creative, and innovative things to help address hunger in their own communities and around the world. We are living in an unprecedented time in the history of the world. More people than ever are being brought out of poverty, malnutrition is being conquered at an amazing rate. Since 1990 hunger has been halved, and there is talk that we can effectively end hunger all across the world by the year 2030. This is a cause for great celebration but also a call to continued action. If we are going to be serious about ending hunger, we will all need to contribute our time, prayers, voices and resources to addressing this issue. Ending hunger is a moral issue, and a Christian prescription and we are all called to participate in it. In many ways the Catholic Church has led the way in this work. Today I would like to highlight 50 ways Catholics are helping put an end to hunger!

This list is by no means exhaustive, but it highlights just a sample of the kinds of work that are going on around the world through the response of faithful Catholics. I would love to hear how your own faith community is taking action on behalf of hungry people! If there is an example that you know of Catholics taking action that isn’t included on this list please let me know.