![]() Pino said that the current pandemic “has increased food insecurity and greatly impacted the vulnerable.” Cross Catholic Outreach coordinates food packing such as the one in Forestville with parishes, Catholic schools and Knights of Columbus around the country. We have Catholic partners around the world who live in communities with the poor and provide both material and spiritual relief,” she said. ![]() “The faith aspect of this is ultra-important to this. In addition to providing food, Pino said her outreach group also helps provide clean water, building homes and chapels and providing Catholic education. “We try to send it to the places where there are the most important needs,” Pino said. (CS photos/Andrew Biraj)Īccording to Cross Catholic Outreach, hunger is especially severe in Guatemala, where the rates of childhood malnourishment are among the highest in the world and nearly 60 percent of the population live below the poverty line. They really have it bad.” Above and below, Knights of Columbus members and their families from four states and the District of Columbia assemble food packages to be distributed to needy people in Maryland and Guatemala. Pino said that country “is really experiencing a crisis in hunger and malnutrition.” The foods were shipped to Diocese of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu, where Pino said, “these people make maybe $2 a day in agriculture in rural Guatemala. The packages sent to Guatemala included soy, rice, beans, dehydrated vegetables and vitamin packs. For the Maryland give-away, the knights prepared packages of protein enriched macaroni and cheese that were distributed to the state’s hungry. Pino said the food is resourced from an Outreach chapter in Iowa. Having faith is one thing, but seeing them putting their faith in action is a beautiful thing,” said Sandi Pino, outreach senior director for Cross Catholic Outreach. ![]() “The Knights of Columbus especially are the hands and feet of Jesus right now in a hurting world. The event was sponsored by Cross Catholic Outreach, a service ministry that works with Catholic clergy, religious, lay people and organizations to provide food, water, housing, medical care and other relief to poor persons in more than 30 countries.Ībout 120 Knights from Washington D.C, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania packaged 36,000 meals to feed the hungry in Guatemala and an additional 4,000 meals for the hungry in Maryland. ![]() Knights of Columbus members from four states and the District of Columbia gathered July 27 at the Knights of Columbus’s Sarto Hall in Forestville, Maryland to assemble food packages to be distributed to needy people in Maryland and Guatemala. ![]()
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