Gleaners Argumentative Essay

Though many local food banks and schools have contributed to fixing this issue, there is much more that can be done alleviate the problem. Contacting Solano County’s schools and community leaders to expand summer food programs will benefit students who rely on school food for their daily meals. Furthermore, working with care and homes centers will not only assist the staff members, but will also ensure children and adults get a nutritional meal every day. Donating cans of food whenever there is a food drive at school or any place asking is another way to provide food for those who need it. Raising awareness to those who do not know about local food drives and programs will also help. Of course, there is always an option to start a new food drive. By lending a helping hand, there will be more smiles on the faces of children and adults who have not done so in a long

Early one November morning a woman stared at me with utter disbelief, tears of gratitude streaming down her cheeks."Thank you," she mouthed silently to me, clutching her son to her chest. I was proud knowing that, because of my efforts, her family and many more who struggle with poverty would be able to share a Thanksgiving meal. I knew that many children in my community would not be able to celebrate the holiday as others might because their parents could not afford to buy food items, and so as Vice President of a community service club called Interact, I was inspired to provide these children with a Thanksgiving dinner. The club officers and I sat crowded around our adviser's desk brainstorming how we would collect ingredients. We decided

Denny’s can impact childhood hunger in the US by working closely with food banks across the nation, creating food pantries, and creating community gardens in low income areas. Food banks collects food from many different sources and it also distributes its resources. Furthermore, creating a food pantry in high schools that are in low income areas can help families. Students who attend these high schools will also be from families who struggle with obtaining food. Moreover, students can come to the pantry and get some food for their families. In addition, a high school is a central location for numerous families. High schools Students can volunteer in expanding the food pantry, who will also work closely with the city’s food banks.

The Nation 's second biggest nutrition and nourishment aid program is the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). More than 99,000 public and non-profit private kindergartens through twelfth-grade schools benefitted from this program by receiving over 30.3 million reduced-cost or free lunches with the Federal Government spending $12.6 billion per year. Almost 5 billion lunches were served in school lunchrooms in 2014, over two-thirds of those lunches were at a reduced-cost or were free of charge. The research discovered that the children who were more likely to eat the meals at school and obtained most of their nutrition and food intake from these meals at school lunchrooms were from marginally secure and food- unstable homes.

Since its implementation, S.P.A.R.R have experienced a surge of students seeking to utilize our resources, but since our program is run by student-parent with limited times, the structural changes needed for our program has failed to keep up with its rising physical demands. As a result, many of the student parents who are in need of food security are turned away. Therefore, with the support of your organization, we hope that S.P.A.R.R Food Donation Program will meet with its structural demands by improving the consistency of their food services through better pick-up and coordinated food practices, its efficiency by hiring a group of interns that will be responsible for collaborating with other food justice programs and by helping us quantify our needs, so that we can present these changes to Financial Aid and make our program no longer

During my first year at UCLA, I had the opportunity to volunteer with the Black Pre-Health Organization on campus to put together an annual youth festival for children living in underserved communities within the greater LA area. Our goal during the festival was to promote healthy lifestyles by teaching the kids, through interactive workshops and activities, the importance of good nutrition and fitness. As a volunteer, I was able to interact with the kids and create a great bond with many of them while providing tips on how they could turn an unhealthy everyday snack into a wholesome, beneficial one. During the festival, we provided the youth with snacks, various health resources and free hygiene products so that they could begin their new

Although hunger is an ongoing problem that will never stop, lots of kids and teens are coming up with simple yet helpful organizations to help the hungry. Katie Stagliano started her organization Katie’s Krop’s at the age of nine. It all started when she was given a cabbage seedling to grow, Katie tended for it over a few days an d ended with a 40 pound cabbage. She decided to donate her cabbage to the soup kitchen and it fed 275 people. Eager to continue helping, Katie started growing gardens all over the US (100) that people of all ages can come and help plant and harvest fresh produce to donate to the soup kitchens. Because of her hard work she has helped donate thousands of pounds of fresh produce to soup kitchens all across the country.

Meet with leaders from Redeemer Lutheran church Community food basket leaders. They are looking for ways to serve our students and their families.

Verna Keesbury and Diane Willis are in charge of food operations for our K-12 school located in Montpelier, OH. Serving over 1,000 meals a day is not only challenging but rewarding to these women as well. Verna's kitchen staff starts serving meals at 10:30 a.m. and ends with the last high school lunch at 1:00 p.m. The greatest addition to Montpelier Schools' Lunch Program has been the School Dinning System Portal. Students enter their lunch number quickly and efficiently and RevTrack allows parents to track spending and eating habits. Parents are also able to pay lunch fees on-line.

National Association of Letter Carriers’ “HELP STAMP OUT HUNGER” Food Drive: Saturday, May 14, 2006

Every year, a certain event takes place that is just as important to my family and I as Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July. However, most of America doesn’t even know this event exists. A five day festival held the first week in August in a small town along the North Shore. In 2015, this little town in the upper northeast region of Minnesota was named “America’s Coolest Small Town,” by Budget Travel. This small town is known as Grand Marais and is home to around 1,341 people. In the 1930s, Grand Marais was a small village with a primary focus on logging and commercial fishing. Many of the community members in this small village decided to gather together for a shoreline picnic as a way to get to know one another and have a good time. This shoreline picnic is now called Fisherman’s Picnic, and has been a tradition carried on for 86 years. The Grand Marais Lions and Lioness Clubs along with many other community organizations work for months preparing for the 10,000 to 15,000 people in attendance each year. Tourist around the country come to partake in this small community gathering that offers a variety of unique events and great food.

On Thursday we will be having our Polar Express. Please have your child wear their pajamas on this day. Our Christmas party is the nest day on Friday, December 18, 2015. Our party will be in our classrooms from 10:00a.m. - 11:00 a.m. We will be having snacks and playing Christmas games in our rooms on this day. We need your help in getting snacks for our classroom. We will also need one bag of individually wrapped candy. Be sure to send enough candy for 24 students. We will be doing a present swap game. Boys need to bring a $5.00 boy gift, and girls need to bring a $5.00 girl gift. Please send these items to school by Wednesday, December 16, 2015.

The SDSU Food Pantry Project aims to meet to goals of decreasing food insecurity on the campus of SDSU and increase the knowledge of nutrition. Bridgett Tuschen will be the project director of this program and will teach the nutrition classes. This program is needed because food insecurity affects over 15 million individuals worldwide and it can affect the future of students. Using a food pantry and nutritional classes we hope to educate individuals in making wise dining choices and provide food for food insecure individuals. This program will be focused on helping individuals that are freshmen and sophomores so that we can give them the information they need to advance in college. Our program will last for a year in which we will administer

greatest during the summer months when they are not in school. Gleaners provide children meals

The Gourmet Food Club, which was started by Andrew Gadson, is holding a fundraiser selling a variety of lunch entrees; all kinds of students are encouraged to join the club. The entrees were served on September 27th in the cafeteria where the meals are hand-prepared by the students. “I’m not much of a cook, but I love their fall fundraiser,” junior, Keisha Brandeis said. “There’s so many to choose from, and it’s a nice break from the lunchroom casserole surprise.” The Gourmet Food Club would not be able to come about without the help of the club’s sponsor, Nora Higbee; Higbee gives the students advice and help them learn new skills. “I love advising the students as they take their classroom skills and apply them to real life,” Higbee said.