Rick’s End Hunger Challenge

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Dear Traveler,

To add meaning to the holiday season, every Christmas I help raise funds for Bread for the World through my traveling friends and network at Rick Steves' Europe. In these challenging days, the needs of those experiencing hunger and poverty are particularly great — and that means that the rewards of helping out right now are great, as well!

I'd love to send you a special Christmas package when you make a $100 gift to Bread for the World. Last year, 6,000 travelers joined us. And this year, I'm hoping we'll do it again! When you send your gift of $100 or more, I'll match it, and you'll receive your choice of a thank-you gift. Imagine, as an extended family of caring (and traveling) people, together we can empower Bread's work with $1,000,000.

I believe hungry people need a strong and compassionate advocate like Bread for the World at the table when Congress addresses the current hunger crisis and decides how it will or will not respond.

I see Bread for the World not as a charity but as a service. If we care about hunger, in my estimate, there's no better way to put our dollars to work. Bread transforms our concern about hunger into effective action by smartly — and doggedly — going into the halls of government and speaking up for hungry people in our country and around the world.

In my travels to Ethiopia and Guatemala, I saw first-hand the powerful role Bread for the World has played in mobilizing our government to help communities through investments in smart development aid. I was inspired by the many people I met who, thanks to this aid, were finding innovative ways to work hard and move their families and communities out of poverty.

Since the pandemic, soaring global food prices, inflation, warfare, and record-long droughts have increased hunger and hardship for millions both at home and abroad, making Bread's work even more urgent and even more impactful.

So, here's my challenge to you this Christmas: Help Bread for the World with your gift of $100 or more. As a thank you, I'll match your gift dollar for dollar and send you these three gifts from my Rick Steves' European Christmas collection:

  • Rick Steves' European Christmas DVD (our public TV special celebrating a traditional, non-commercial, and sacred Christmas in seven countries)
  • Rick Steves' European Christmas coffee-table book (the fun insights, best photos, and tastiest recipes, I gathered while filming)
  • Rick Steves' European Christmas music CD (recorded in the field and featuring our 20 favorite European carols — this CD is my personal choice for a fresh collection of holiday music)

I'll happily pay for the cost of the gifts, as well as the shipping, so Bread for the World can put every penny of your donation to work, giving a voice to hungry people. If you make your gift by Dec. 5, you'll get everything (along with our latest travel newsletter) in time for Christmas.

By the way, for every dollar Bread for the World raises, it leverages $100 in assistance and funding that's vital to hungry and poor people in our country and abroad. (That's the great thing about advocacy — our government wants to do the right thing, when properly encouraged.) Imagine, if we hit our $1,000,000 target, together, we'll help generate 100 million dollars of life-giving, hope-instilling funding!

Thanks and Merry Christmas,

Rick Steves

P.S. As an alternative thank-you gift, you're welcome to select my new Rick Steves Art of Europe DVD Set (a six-hour sweep through the story of Europe's art from prehistoric times to the Modern Age) and a Rick Steves' Europe Planning Map. Or, you're welcome to request no gift at all.