Workshop aimed at combating poverty

Bread for the World, a nonpartisan citizen's movement concentrated on combating international hunger, is holding an Offering of Letters workshop tonight at First Presbyterian Church, 221 E. Sixth St. \nThe event is an effort to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals created at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. These goals include eradicating hunger and poverty, combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases and providing universal primary education. The goals are intended to cut international hunger in half by 2015. To fulfill this purpose, Bread for the World partnered with the One Campaign to write a bill urging U.S. representatives to increase poverty-focused development spending by 1 percent of the national budget.\nMariah Priggen, the regional organizer for Bread for the World, will lead the workshop, which will educate its participants on the Millennium Development Goals and the legislation needed to achieve these goals. Those who attend will be encouraged to take the information they learn and educate their churches or other organizations with which they are affiliated and together write letters to urge their representatives to increase poverty-focused development assistance.\nThe event starts at 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.bread.org.