Everyday Black Matters
As many of you know, Congress needs to make a whole-lotta important decisions. One of the issues on the table is the decision to cut funding for a poverty relief program in the US which will affect millions of children & families, leaving them vulnerable to hunger.
I am extremely passionate about programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program aka food stamps because I used them once in a time when we were living well below the poverty line and because as a kid, I was hungry a lot. I feel for people in desperate situations through no fault of their own and I firmly believe it is the responsibility of humans to care for other less fortunate humans.
Though not as widely discussed as our international friends living in poverty, one in five American children struggles with ongoing hunger. The NoKidHungry.org campaign is trying to put an end to this by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need every day through programs like school breakfast, summer meals & even classes to teach low-income families how to cook healthy affordable meals. It always warms my heart in the mornings that I walk our 1st-grader, Ransom in to school and see a number of kids being served breakfast that they may not have gotten otherwise.
Children in America don’t suffer from hunger because America lacks food, we have plenty.
You may think an organization like this is run by a large group of VIP’s but it’s not. Refreshingly, the No Kid Hungry Network is made of a combination of regular old U.S. citizens, public officials, non-profit organizations & business leaders…which is to say you can get involved!
I say this a lot but the needs of the poor are not just their problems, they are our crisis’ too. As well they should be.
To learn more, you can go to NoKidHungry.org to take the pledge to help. At the very least watch this video. Be informed.
Anyone else have any experience with childhood hunger? What other organizations have you heard of/support or benefit from that deals with these types of issues?
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