Tagged: Hunger

The State of Things
12:03 pm
Thu April 11, 2013

Celebrated Minster Comes Home

  • Rev. Dr. James Forbes talks about the anti-hunger organization Bread for the World

The Rev. Dr. James Forbes spent 18 years as the senior minister of the Riverside Church in New York City, one of the nation’s most prominent pulpits,  but his journey began in North Carolina. Dr. Forbes grew up in Raleigh, and in the 1960s, he pastored churches in Wilmington and Roxboro.

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Health
9:20 am
Mon September 17, 2012

Farmers' Markets Target Child Hunger

Child hunger is the target of a collaboration between Triangle-based farmers' markets and nonprofit Farmer Foodshare. Food and money will be collected this week at markets in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and elsewhere. Margaret Gifford is the founder and executive director of Farmer Foodshare. She says there's plenty of food to go around in North Carolina.

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