Bread for the World
is a Christian, non-partisan movement in the United States that aims to end
hunger. The organization defines itself as a unified Christian voice
encouraging the nation’s law makers to end hunger in the country and overseas.
By modifying policies, improving programs and eradicating conditions that allow
poverty and hunger to persist, it provides opportunity and assistance to
communities far beyond where they live.
The organization
was founded in the fall of 1972 by a small but strong-willed group of
Protestants and Catholics who met to contemplate on how people of great faith
can influence the United States’ policies on addressing hunger. Through Reverend Arthur Simon’s
leadership, the group started to test the concept in the spring of 1974. By the
end of the year, almost 600 people joined Bread for the World as advocates for
the hungry people.
The Bread for
the World initiated The One Campaign, a movement that rallies Americans to
actively respond to worldwide problems of extreme hunger, poverty and AIDS.