The AJWS community has a lot to say about what's happening in the world. Read our insights about the struggle for justice and human rights around the globe — and meet the activists on the frontlines of the fight to build a better world.
Greetings from Peru. Today was a full day in Iquitos. I traveled for several hours by a large, elongated motor boat up the Amazon River to a typical small fishing village where AJWS’s long-term partner Minga Peru is located. Founded in 1998, Minga Peru works with the indigenous populations of the Peruvian Amazon to empower …
Can food be grown in the developing world where hungry people can actually get it, at prices they can afford? For all of us at AJWS, the answer is, of course, a resounding YES. Even though poverty and difficult growing conditions plague the places that need new food production most, including sub-Saharan Africa and South …
World Food Day is tomorrow, October 16th. This is a day when the global community comes together to unite against hunger. Want to know how you can get involved? Here’s how:
I arrived in Haiti and settled in to Port-au-Prince. I remember the profound poverty of the country, its strong African-Caribbean feel, the streets filled with kids in different uniforms bustling to and from schools, thousands of small stalls selling one or two products, throngs of people stopping to talk with each other and the traffic. Streets …
The article “So Much Food. So Much Hunger.” in Sunday’s NY Times could not be more relevant to the daily buzz at AJWS around Fighting Hunger from the Ground Up. In fact, here at AJWS, we’ve been joking about how one of us must have been the article’s ghost writer.
