Welcome to the Rice Raiser Blog

Welcome to this new Rice Raiser Campaign Blog.

First some back ground information:

The Rice Raiser Campaign started in 2005. It was on a trip to Cambodia and a face to face encounter with children who worked night shifts in the garbage fields trying to salvage any recyclable item they could find to help provide food for their families. These children represent millions of children who are born into struggling economies that lack sufficient resources to ensure basic food staples for the people. The boys pictured in the sidebar, like many other children are denied the opportunity of an education so their chances of improving their life situation is very minimal.

The realization that if more people were exposed to the realities of what hunger looks like, the more opportunities there would be to change hunger in people's lives world wide, led to the conception of the Rice Raiser Campaign.

The Rice Raiser campaign is an initiation of Hunger Response International - a Canadian charity that seeks to provide information about global hunger and challenge people to respond on the local and global levels at the same time. The Rice Raiser Campaign is a youth mobilized community event that addresses hunger. www.riceraiser.org