Wicker By Design supports efforts to relieve world hunger and the causes of economic disparities in the world. We believe that world peace can only come when our world is free of hunger and economic disparities. Every 3.6 seconds, someone dies of hunger. 75% are children. You can make a difference.

Visit The Hunger Site every day and donate cups of food for the world's hungry -- at no cost to you. When you click on the "Give Free Food" button on the home page of The Hunger Site, funding is generated for the purchase and distribution of staple food to those in need. Funds are paid by site sponsors. In 2000, daily clicks yielded over $3.4 million for the frontline hunger relief organizations working to provide food and hope to the hungry around the world. That's over 20 million pounds of food made possible by people like you, who simply took a moment to click a button each day.

The United States has joined the rest of the developed world in committing to eight Millenium Development Goals (MDG's).   You can also view the actual Millenium Declaration.  These goals range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.  Sadly, the United States has not performed as well relative to its size and capacity (source, http://www.milleniumcampaign.org)

The Episcopal Church of the United States has endorsed these MDG goals and many Dioceses has been this effort a major priority, including our own home Diocese, The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.  In particular, the Episcopal Church challenges church members and churches themselves to give .7% of their income to help these goals, not just our government.   

You can also support these other fine organizations (Wicker By Design's poverty focus is on the Philippines):

• Children's Shelter of Cebu
• Mennonite Central Committee
• Mercy Corp
• Habitat for Humanity
• Oxfam
• The ONE Campaign to fight global AIDS, Hunger and Poverty
• The Millenium Campaign
• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
• Save the Children
• Doctors Without Borders