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Hungry Children in America

Bringing attention to the children living in poverty that go hungry in America..

Encouraging charity — your support through the many choices available — such as making a donation, volunteerism, or sponsorship of a child in the US.

Today, please help a child that is hungry in America.

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Contents at a Glance

Poverty In The United States
Perspective
Gallop Poll Data For Frac.org
US Census Findings
FeedingAmerica.org
Something Just About Anyone Can Do To He...

Poverty In The United States

Children starving in America

Perspective

From FeedingAmerica.org:

1 in 6 Americans
are struggling to get
enough to eat.

Do you have a neighbor
going to bed hungry?

Gallop Poll Data For Frac.org

Responding households with children "reported food hardship at a rate 1.62 times that of other households - 24.1 percent versus 14.9 percent in 2009."

March 2011 report in PDF form from frac.org
(Food Research and Action Center)

US Census Findings

In 2009, 43.6 million people were in poverty, up from 39.8 million in 2008 - the third consecutive annual increase in the number of people in poverty.

Source: US Census Bureau

FeedingAmerica.org

"Hunger is increasing at an alarming
rate in the United States."

Hunger In America 2010: Key Findings

Something Just About Anyone Can Do To Help

Make a shoe-box gift for a needy American child. (Here is a Squidoo page all about shoe-box gifting.)

AARP Bulletin Today

Five-Part Series On Hunger In America

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Special five-part series from AARP Bulletin Today

Part I: How Could It Happen Here?

Where you can
volunteer
in your own neighborhood.

Part II: Food Programs Feel The Squeeze

Part III: What Happened To The Food Surplus?

Part IV: Food Stamps: Poverty's Barometer

Part V: What Can We Do?

Garden Harvest

Get down to grass roots with this organization. Donate equipment — from pick-up trucks, to tractors, to office machines. Donate your farm. Donate farm animals — sheep, chickens, cows, and more — to go to families for help in producing their food.

A flock of chickens, about 12 hens and one rooster, will produce around a dozen eggs every other day! That's enough for the table and enough for sale.

"Adopt" a goat owned by Garden Harvest. Garden Harvest will take care of the goat's needs so that she can produce milk for the Baltimore area's poor children.

Kudos for the volunteers at Garden Harvest!

Have A Bake Sale

Join Share Our Strength to help organizations in your community end childhood hunger.

Experiencing Poverty

Inspiring and heartbreaking stories

People writing about their experiences with poverty.

A Starving Nation

Worthwhile links for more information about hunger in America

The homeless, the hungry, and the working poor: We have a growing crisis in America today, and it is our own countries blatant neglect of the homeless, the hungry, and the working poor.
NPR: Hunger in America: Some 38 million people in America are considered "food insecure" — they have trouble finding the money to keep food on the table. NPR profiles families who have faced hunger in three different settings: rural, suburban and urban America.
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC): The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national organization working to improve public policies in order to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research, policy, public education and advocacy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of hundreds of state and local organizations across the country.
U.S. Hunger Issues: Check our U.S. section for the facts you need about hunger and poverty in the United States, information on nutrition programs, and a list of national organizations fighting hunger. Read the latest background paper on faith and our national priorities: Budgeting for Justice.
Feeding America: Feeding America provides low-income individuals and families with the fuel to survive and even thrive. As the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief charity, our network members supply food to more than 25 million Americans each year, including 9 million children and 3 million seniors. (Formerly SecondHarvest.org)
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): This program (formerlay known as the Food Stamp Program, puts healthy food on the table for 26 million people each month. The Food Stamp Program helps low-income people and families buy the food they need for good health.
The Geography of American Poverty: Do a mouse rollover to see a state's poverty ranking.
Charity Evaluator: Charity Navigator, America's largest independent charity evaluator, provides free financial evaluations of America's charities. We are the individual donor's first source for unbiased news and information on philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, wise giving, donating money, charitable donations, and charity ratings.

Bill Wilson: A Compassionate Heart

Through his ministry, MetroMinistries.org, sponsor a child in the US.