Catholic Relief Services

Visit the CRS Rice Bowl page for resource ideas to bring the joy of Lent to your family, parish, and your school.

https://www.crsricebowl.org/

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. The agency alleviates suffering and provides assistance to people in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.  

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CRS Rice Bowl, the Lenten program that began in 1975, will begin on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Each year, families from more than 14,000 communities across the country use nearly 4 million rice bowls for almsgiving, which they turn in at the end of Lent. These donations make a difference overseas and here in the United States, with 75% going to CRS programming in targeted countries and the remaining 25% staying in the local diocese it came from. AS unemployment and hunger increase worldwide, those donations are lifesaving for communities overseas and here at home.