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In a hungry world, Development and Peace is giving Canadian Catholics a chance to save lives. Using its partnership with Canadian Food Grains Bank, CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Catholic development agency is taking advantage of an Ottawa matching fund to get money and the food it can buy to starving people.

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ItöÏÓãÊÓƵapp a hungry world and COVID has only sharpened those hunger pangs.

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Fifty years ago Len Kraemer was young, strong, intelligent and rural, which is why he was helping bring in a crop of hay on the family farm near Walkerton, Ont. As he jammed his gloves on harder and lifted bales of hay under the afternoon sun, young Kraemer started thinking about Africa.

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