World Hunger and Poverty
$40 Feed a Family for One Month
Through UMCOR’s World Hunger/ Poverty Program, UMCOR assists millions of people who suffer from chronic malnutrition. Help feed a family of five, providing them with food while their own crops grow and become productive.
Your gift of $40 can help feed a family of five for one month.
World Hunger/Poverty
UMCOR Advance #982920 
$50 Keep a Hive Buzzing
Beekeeping training is one of UMCOR’s Sustainable Agriculture & Development Programs in Liberia that is helping farmers improve their livelihood, build new homes and provide education for their children.
Your gift of $50 can cover the cost of supplying the materials for building one bee hive for a small-scale farmer in Liberia. One bee hive can house 50,000 to 70,000 bees and produce an average of three to four gallons of honey.
$65.90 Send Coffee with a Perk for Farmers
Why not send fair trade gourmet coffee as a gift this year? When your purchase coffee or any other fair trade product through UMCOR’s Coffee Project and its partner Equal Exchange, you help promote better lives for farmers in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the United States and help them earn fair wages for their crops while delivering a fair price for consumers. Send coffee, help a farmer. Also, a percentage of your purchase of fairly traded goods from Equal Exchange will go to support UMCOR’s Hunger and Poverty program.
$65.90 (tax not included) purchases a 5 pound bag of any coffee of your choice. Buy directly from UMCOR’s partner, Equal Exchange here.
$100 Buy a Bee Suit
Contribute to beekeeping and the production of honey in Liberia by equipping beekeepers with the protective gear they need during harvesting.
Your gift of $100 can help cover the costs of one protective bee suit.
$200 Support Fair Trade Practices
In Guatemala and Mexico, palms represent fair trade and a better ecosystem. UMCOR and the University of Minnesota is building support in the US for the Eco-Palm Project that will help harvesters earn a fair income while helping to sustain forestry, protect local jobs and preserve livelihoods.
Your gift of $200 can support sustainable agricultural projects.
$250 Send a Farmer to Field School
Help send a farmer to UMCOR’s Integrated Crop and Pest Management-Farmer Field School. During this 18-week training, farmers learn new techniques on how to best manage their farm by using locally-available products and organic methods to produce healthy crops.
Your gift of $250 can cover the costs of one 18-week training for one farmer.
$300 Help Grow Moringa Trees
Leaves from the Moringa tree are a highly nutritious supplement aiding those who do not have adequate food supplies in developing countries. Farmers in Ghana, Liberia, Sierre Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo have benefited from the additional income that Moringa can bring. Moringa leaves are sold for use in tea and Moringa leaf powder is used as a nutritious food additive that aids in overcoming malnutrition.
Your gift of $300 can furnish a kilo of Moringa seeds that help improve the health and livelihood of farmers. Each seed produces one Moringa tree.
The above gifts go to
Sustainable Agriculture & Development Program
UMCOR Advance #982188
$500 Help Alleviate the Global Food Crisis
About 854 million people throughout the world do not have enough to eat each day. Global food prices have nearly doubled in the last three years, particularly for basic grains like rice, wheat and corn. Hardest hit are children—16,000 of whom die daily due to hunger-related causes.
Your gift of $500 or more can assist UMCOR’s existing hunger programs in developing countries and help meet the needs associated with the burgeoning food crisis through the development of new programs and the upkeep of current ones.
World Food Crisis
UMCOR Advance, #3019696
