wfn.org | Food crisis, climate change are topics at CWS/Bread global poverty forum

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Food crisis, climate change topics at CWS/Bread global poverty forum

FARGO, ND, Dec. 1, 2008--Church World Service will partner with Bread 
for the World in an event designed to equip students, congregations 
and other groups to organize for action against poverty, hunger and 
disease at a half-day forum scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6, at the 
North Dakota State University (NDSU) Memorial Union in Fargo, 
ND.  The event runs from 8:30 A.M. to 1 P.M.

Called "Turning the Tide: Pushing Back Global Poverty,"  the forum 
will focus on progress toward achieving the Millennium Development 
Goals (MDGs), a set of goals adopted by the United Nations and the 
international community for reducing by half the number of people 
living in extreme poverty and substantially improving health and 
education in impoverished countries by 2015.

While the MDGs have helped focus energy and resources in all regions 
of the world on a common strategy to address global poverty, the 
global food crisis has caused major setbacks in many countries and 
pockets of deep poverty still exist.

Participants at the forum can attend informational sessions for 
updates on progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, 
background on environmental, economic, health and social issues 
related to poverty, and skills building sessions on techniques for 
influencing legislators, using the Internet and social networking 
sites for anti-hunger and poverty action, and ideas for community involvement.

Sponsored by the Minn-Kota regional office of Church World 
Service(CWS) and the Upper Midwest regional office of Bread for the 
World, the forum is free and open to the public.

For more information contact Rev. Dan Forsberg at (701) 232-7166 or 
call the CWS regional office at 1-888-297-2767.