17 MILLION CHILDREN SUFFER FROM HUNGER IN AMERICA.
1 OUT OF 5 CHILDREN GO TO BED EVERY NIGHT WITH NO IDEA WHERE THEIR NEXT MEAL IS COMING FROM.
4 OUT OF 5 CHILDREN HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH AND ARE READY TO CHANGE THIS NUMBER.
1 OUT OF 5 CHILDREN GO TO BED EVERY NIGHT WITH NO IDEA WHERE THEIR NEXT MEAL IS COMING FROM.
4 OUT OF 5 CHILDREN HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH AND ARE READY TO CHANGE THIS NUMBER.
Child Hunger Day increases funds and awareness to provide much needed food for hungry children. We feed hungry kids and those suffering malnutrition during the school year and especially on weekends and during the summer while school is out.
Teachers and school administrators, those on the front line of caring for our children while they are away from their parents during the week, know firsthand of the weekend hunger problem. The teachers know as they wave goodbye on Friday which students will not have proper nutrition over the weekend. They know which students will arrive Monday morning ill-prepared to learn properly.
No child in our great country should go without proper food and nutrition. The fault lies in many places, some that come to your mind and some that have come to the mind of many others as they learn of the problem.
The fault does not lie, however, with the child. It is time for us to unite on behalf of these precious children who are helpless, voiceless and who are literally the victims of this child hunger circumstance.
"The face of hunger doesn't have a particular color, and it doesn't come from a particular neighborhood. They are your neighbors. They are working Americans...and they are children."-Ertharin Cousin, Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture
Teachers and school administrators, those on the front line of caring for our children while they are away from their parents during the week, know firsthand of the weekend hunger problem. The teachers know as they wave goodbye on Friday which students will not have proper nutrition over the weekend. They know which students will arrive Monday morning ill-prepared to learn properly.
No child in our great country should go without proper food and nutrition. The fault lies in many places, some that come to your mind and some that have come to the mind of many others as they learn of the problem.
The fault does not lie, however, with the child. It is time for us to unite on behalf of these precious children who are helpless, voiceless and who are literally the victims of this child hunger circumstance.
"The face of hunger doesn't have a particular color, and it doesn't come from a particular neighborhood. They are your neighbors. They are working Americans...and they are children."-Ertharin Cousin, Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture
