How do you help those in need?
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- Heather426 Heather426 Dec 14, 2009 @ 12:11 am
- Nice that you are pointing out yet another area of real need! I pray that one day none of our children will be hungry. I have friends who grew up not having food on many days and it's a very hard thing to endure. Food insecurity leads to overall insecurity...so sad. Blessed.
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- TanyaWhaley TanyaWhaley Dec 5, 2009 @ 11:33 pm
- Nice lens, I really enjoyed reading so much I didn't know about! 5*s
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- ftuley ftuley Dec 2, 2009 @ 10:44 am
- I love your lenses, you are gifted! This is another nice one. Thank you for visiting and rating my "Women Abuse...Domestic Violence " I'm truly grateful. 5*
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- Spook Spook Nov 9, 2009 @ 5:25 am
- Still find all this hard to believe. Blessed by an Angel.
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- aj2008 aj2008 Nov 5, 2009 @ 7:18 am
- Such an important lens with a powerful message. SquidAngel Blessings for you.
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- kimmanleyort kimmanleyort Nov 1, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
- Your blackboxes with the statistics is very effective. Thank you for speaking up on this topic.
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- Shelly Shelly Oct 3, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
- Another sobering lens by you--and of course, excellent! Sadly, with today's economy more programs are being cut that serve those who are deperately in need. I worked in a Title 1 school that offered free breakfasts to all students--a wonderful program, but children need their adults at home to get them moving early enough to take advantage of it. There are so many facets of this issue that should not exist in our nation.
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- GrowWear GrowWear Sep 29, 2009 @ 7:14 am | in reply to KathyMcGraw
- So true. A child can't concentrate on anything but hunger in these situations. Hunger hurts. Indeed, it's all they can think about.
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- KathyMcGraw KathyMcGraw Sep 28, 2009 @ 11:56 pm
- It's true many people don't think about our children going hungry, except at the Holidays. We never really could get it right to make sure people had enough to eat everyday. Being hungry affects so much in a childs life, how do they concentrate, how do they care about much of anything if they are only concentrating on eating.
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- Michey Michey Sep 19, 2009 @ 8:04 am
- This is another powerful message, and with the Homeless lens you really are a great advocate for poor people.
Bravo! It is all I can say! This is a very good debate we all have to follow.
Michey
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Sep 10, 2009 @ 9:10 am
- Hungry in America surely ties right in with Homeless in America! It is TIME to focus on what is important here.
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- mukunda22 mukunda22 Sep 8, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
- Hunger in the world's wealthiest nation?? Why??
Thank you for nudging along a consciousness raising on this subject!!
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- Spook Spook Aug 16, 2009 @ 4:49 am
- Came back again to see an excellent lens. Still cannot believe this can happen in America. Something has to be badly wrong.
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- 24websurf 24websurf Aug 13, 2009 @ 7:56 pm
- Superb job bringing awareness to this issue! Thank you, MiMi, for your unflagging support of humans everywhere!
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- ljamano ljamano Aug 13, 2009 @ 8:44 am
- This is a fantastic lens with great content. I'm just getting started on a lens working to eliminate poverty in America...thanks for the great resource!
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- BevsPaper BevsPaper Aug 4, 2009 @ 7:03 am
- Oh Mimi thank you for calling attention to the hungry children in America! With our economy as it is now, I'm sure those stats have increased alarmingly. Great lens on an important topic.
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- dc64 dc64 Jul 16, 2009 @ 1:47 pm
- This is sad, and I know it exists, I just wish the Food Stamp Program would require drug-testing before awarding public assistance. Several people I work with get food stamps, but do drugs and brag about it. I easily qualify for public assistance, but I'm just too darned proud.
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- Spook Spook Jun 27, 2009 @ 3:42 am
- I'm so sorry it took me so long to find this lens. I was truly shocked to read some of the information especially it being America which I have such a high regard for. I personally think we as people have lost sight of the most important things in our conduct.
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- janices7 janices7 Jun 18, 2009 @ 11:35 am
- I'm back:) Loved this lens so much that I have featured you on my lens about the Cow-A-Bunga Bingo Raffle that I am chairing to raise money for the CAER food shelf.
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie May 17, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
- Sometimes it seems that there is so much attention focused on other countries when we don't look right under our noses to see that there are hungry right here in America! Thinking way way way back, I remember hearing about the 'starving kids in Biafra!'
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- hlkljgk hlkljgk Apr 18, 2009 @ 8:48 am
- such an important issue to remember. and it seems so silly that with the prosperity of our country hunger even exists.
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- spirituality spirituality Apr 9, 2009 @ 2:45 am
- Great lens - you've been blessed by a squidoo angel :)
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- mysticmama mysticmama Mar 27, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
- nice lens...very important subject...it's just disgusting that any child in America or anywhere else for that matter, has to go without food...when everyday we waste so much...thanks for making this lens 5*
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- GrowWear GrowWear Mar 13, 2009 @ 12:13 pm | in reply to LaraineRose
- Your famine lens deserves (and received) a lensroll right back. Thank you!
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- LaraineRose LaraineRose Mar 13, 2009 @ 4:44 am
- It must be a terrible thing not to have enough to food and clothe your family. I appreciate your informative lens. 5*s, fan already, favored and lensrolled to my Famine lens.
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- TopStyleTravel TopStyleTravel Feb 24, 2009 @ 7:02 pm
- Great lens on the issue of hunger. It is more important now in this economy that we all do what we can to feed the hungry. Eating is our most basic need of life. Everyone that can should make a sacrifice and give. One of the easiest ways to give is by purchasing goods from companies that partner with non profits. It won't cost the donor anything extra but you will feel good knowing that it will help someone.
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- janices7 janices7 Feb 5, 2009 @ 10:19 am
- GREAT Lens! It is mind boggling just how many people in our own communities go to bed hungry every night. Thank you so much for helping to get the word out. My hope is that if people get educated on how dire the situation is, they will do something. A well deserved 5*....keep up the great work!
I've been working with my local food shelf on a coupon program to buy groceries at huge discounts using store sales and manufacturer coupons (we've averaged 75% off MSRP for the things we've donated in the past 6 months). For any of you looking to help out your local food shelf, you can get the details on my lens (http://www.squidoo.com/coupons-for-charity-food-shelf).
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- lollyj lollyj Feb 4, 2009 @ 7:15 am
- Thanks for stopping by my lens.
My husband and I have used the "shoebox" technique for years. We wrap the shoeboxes in giftwrap and tie them up with string. Homeless and hungry children horrify us. This is our small way of brightening the corner where we are, and putting our money where our mouths are.
Excellent lens with shocking, heart sickening stats. Fives, faves, and lensroll for you.
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- Tipi Tipi Jan 24, 2009 @ 11:02 pm
- I'm thinking about doing a lens for Food For Everyone, and wanted to get some ideas. - Like I don't have enough to do!
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- mukunda22 mukunda22 Jan 18, 2009 @ 2:37 am
- An important and always timely subject.
I hope we can put an end to poverty in America!!
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- Tipi Tipi Jan 17, 2009 @ 11:15 am
- I have to say good for you, for putting your heart into this lens. Keep doing good! There are many that are hungry in America. Sad to say, but true.
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- seedplanter seedplanter Jan 15, 2009 @ 4:09 am
- MiMi, you've done it again--made me pause and think hard. Thank you.
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- OhMe OhMe Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:23 am
- Welcome to the South Carolina Group
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- OhMe OhMe Dec 30, 2008 @ 8:35 am
- You are such a giving person. You are always promoting someone else or a great cause.
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- JohannTheDog JohannTheDog Dec 22, 2008 @ 9:17 am
- Such an incredibly important and often times 'hidden' problem of America. Thank you for this lens and bringing it further into the light.
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- K_Linda K_Linda Dec 14, 2008 @ 10:08 am
- Thank you for making this lens. No one should be going hungry in America! And thanks for lensrolling my Make A Difference lens. Here's one back at ya!
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- OhMe OhMe Dec 12, 2008 @ 8:51 am
- These numbers are awful and makes my heart ache. We try to help out locally and our churches do a lot of feeding the hungry. You have done a nice job with this lens and getting the word out. Hopefully more and more people will do their part to eliminate the hunger.
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Dec 5, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
- I grew up in a household that danced along the poverty line every day, but we never went hungry. It's frightening to know many do.
Great lens.
Lizzy
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- PastorKay PastorKay Dec 2, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
- So many hungry mouths. So many unemployed hands. So many farms closing up. When will we get it right?
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- cschneid cschneid Nov 30, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
- I read a book called "Nickle and Dimed" which was an amazing view of how the working poor have so many more obstacles in america. They're going hungry and eating fast food, because of lack of time (after working two jobs), and lack of access to social safety nets (only open 7 hours a day during the week).
Thank you a ton for this lens, it brings light to a horrible problem in America (and the world). Hunger can be solved if people just pay attention, and give a few dollars a piece.
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- awelldressedbullet awelldressedbullet Nov 24, 2008 @ 8:12 pm
- It's so sad that there are still so many people and children who go hungry. Excellent lens, you did a very nice job! - Kathy
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- AndyPo AndyPo Nov 20, 2008 @ 9:42 am
- Great lens and thank you so much for promoting my Cuba lens on your blog and the comments on my Borneo lens (my first LOTD ;-)
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- Nov 19, 2008 @ 6:04 am
- I never knew the numbers were so big! I don't live in America but this year, I am decluttering my closets and giving clothes, blankets and toys that we don't need anymore to local charities because some some Irish families are also struggling.
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- GrowWear GrowWear Nov 8, 2008 @ 9:56 am | in reply to Comfortdoc
- Thank you for the link. I added it to this lens. :)
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- Comfortdoc Comfortdoc Nov 8, 2008 @ 8:52 am
- Operation Christmas Child is another Shoe-box project, http://www.squidoo.com/shoeboxes
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- Comfortdoc Comfortdoc Nov 8, 2008 @ 8:39 am
- Mimi Great lens on an important topic. Thank you for submitting it to the Month of Thanks Challenge.
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- tokyobabydoll tokyobabydoll Oct 30, 2008 @ 2:54 am
- There should really be more lenses like this. Awareness is the first step.
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- chefkeem chefkeem Oct 16, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
- A hearty SquidAngel Blessing for this important lens!
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- MamaJ MamaJ Oct 13, 2008 @ 7:06 pm
- Great topic. Very much ignored by the powere that be. What a shame and a half. Soooo sad.
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- JeremyL JeremyL Oct 3, 2008 @ 11:46 pm
- How can we spend so much on military might while children are starving? A great lens that keeps reminding us of what's really important.
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Oct 3, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
- We definately need to help one another. I agree with Hilary Clinton...
It takes a village to raise a child.
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- The_Homeopath The_Homeopath Sep 26, 2008 @ 10:28 am
- Thank you for using your squid powers to call attention to such a vital issue here in America.
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- spirituality spirituality Sep 6, 2008 @ 6:33 am
- Very important topic - that gets ignored too easily. I applaud Obama for responding to the question asked, and I believe it's outragious for the most powerful country in the world to have so little care for it's hungry children and adults.
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- EverythingMouse EverythingMouse Sep 1, 2008 @ 11:56 pm
- Those statistics are so shocking. A great lens which draws attention to an issue which is so often forgotten or denied.
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- clouda9 clouda9 May 27, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
- Thank you so much for sharing this information, giving us an opportunity to give back to our communities.
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- mulberry mulberry Feb 10, 2008 @ 12:30 am
- Important lens! The most basic of needs that goes unmet far more often than most realize.
Hungry In America See more at Hungry In America
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Hungry In America
Bringing attention to the children who go hungry in America. Encouraging your support through the many choices available — such as making a donation, sponsorship of a child in the US, and volunteerism. Feed a hungry chi...
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Contents at a Glance
- 35 Million People
- 15 Million Women Living In Poverty
- Dramatic Rise In Numbers
- August 2009
- Something Just About Anyone Can Do To Help
- President Obama on Hunger in America
- AARP Bulletin Today
- Video From Feeding America
- The 2009 Great American Bake
- Garden Harvest
- Experiencing Poverty
- Sponsor a Child in the US
- A Starving Nation
- Perspective
- Hungry in America in Blog Land
- Christopher_Scott
- Know Someone Who's Hungry?
