TAKING a break from work in the Essex community, Sister Moira travelled to Westminster earlier this month to lobby Parliament over global poverty.
The canoness was one of hundreds of members of religious orders who met their MPs on May 15 to push for action on global hunger, as part of the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign.
"I believe the resources of our world are given to us to share justly and generously, not to use selfishly for ourselves. It's an appalling scandal that there's so much hunger in the world," said Sister Moira.
"I regularly visit our sisters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and I have seen many children there with malnutrition and adults dying from starvation. Big demonstrations, like the religious lobby, make the government acknowledge that people from all backgrounds have a right to share the plenty we have on our planet, that they're prepared to take part and that the world is watching.
"We hope and pray that our politicians will not just listen to us, but will act to defend the poorest and most vulnerable in our world. As long as one person is still hungry, our work is not over."
Labour party leader Ed Miliband and international development minister Alan Duncan were among more than 40 MPs who met the religious lobbyists.
"I warmly endorse the IF campaign. It's a very easy campaign to remember: it's about aid, it's about tax and it's about transparency," said the Labour leader.
