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. Attention Step
. When will you eat next? Will you be eating dinner tonight? . Need Step
. Today, there are over 446,000 people that are going hungry in San Diego County. http://sandiegofoodbank.org/hunger-in-san-diego/ . A story of a fellow San Diegan and her family who are also having hunger problems. 1. Alejandra in her late 20s moved in with her sister Marisol, her husband, and her three kids to help take care of them.
2. Marisol worked days and Alejandra nights so there was always someone to take care of the kids.
3. Marisol’s husband lost his job as construction worker, Marisol was laid off from hers as a housekeeper at a Holiday Inn, and then Alejandra lost her restaurant job.
4. It became hard
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. Action Step
. Fact is…people are hungry…. but the San Diego Food Bank is there to help.
. So today, I would like to encourage you to pull out your phones when you leave this classroom today, simply text capital letters “SD” to 20222, and this will make a 10$ donation to the San Diego Food Bank, just a simple thing, yet that 10 dollars will provide 30 meals for people in need.
. This week, I myself am going to make a ten dollar donation and drop off a bag of food to the Food Bank.
. If San Diegans work together, we can eliminate hunger in San Diego
One of the issues that the family is encountering will be financially since they are a lot of members living in the same house. Another family member is Alejandro living with them who works and goes to college. Alejandro is fully bilingual and is trying to help his parents, but dislikes his job and has been feeling emotionally unstable. There is also Carmen who is hearing impaired due to Celia contracting rubella while pregnant. Carmen needs help figuring out what college she wants to attend and how to get scholarships and this will possibly put the family at a financial hardship. There’s also the other daughter Emilia who had Joey and he’s been with parents’ in
One of the issues that the family is encountering will be financial since they are a lot of members living in the same house. Another family member is Alejandro living with them who works and goes to college. Alejandro is fully bilingual and is trying to help his parents but dislikes his job and has been feeling emotionally unstable. There is also Carmen who is hearing impaired due to Celia contracting rubella while pregnant. Carmen needs help figuring out what college she wants to attend and how to get scholarships and this will possibly put the family at a financial hardship. There’s also the other daughter Emilia who had Joey and he’s being with parents’ in
Thesis Statement: The Houston Food Bank uses the efforts of volunteers as well as donations to support the reduction of hunger in the community.
After reading the extensive “The New Face of Hunger” (Tracie McMillan), my eyes became more open to the overall issue of hunger, faced by many people today. In a few words, I was absolutely shocked by the true meaning and examples provided of what exactly food insecurity is. Honestly speaking, when I hear the word “hunger” I think of a human who has no food, living on the streets. “The New Face of hunger” brought to my attention that food insecurity is much more than simply having no food. In fact, “In 2006 the U.S. government replaced “hunger” with the term “food insecure” to describe any household where, sometime during the previous year, people didn’t have enough food to eat” (The New Face of Hunger). Not only was I able to see the harsh
On Tuesday evening, over fifty of our leaders from Auto, Innovation, and Recovery came to fight hunger and feed hope at the San Antonio Food Bank. Collectively they sorted through 20,330 pounds of food which resulted in 16,264 meals for the city of San Antonio and it's surrounding counties. It was an evening of camaraderie and fun that will never be forgotten.
Considering the following statistics, it is clear why Hunger Free Colorado’s work is so important: Nearly 1 in 7 Coloradans struggled with hunger in 2013, facing times when there was not enough money to buy food for their families or themselves (Colman-Jenson, Gregory, & Singh, 2013). More than 1 in 5 Colorado households with children (22%) reported food hardship, facing financial challenges to put food on the table (Food Research and Action Center, 2013). More than 1 in 8 Coloradans lived in poverty, including 1 in 6 kids, during 2013 (Bishaw & Fontenot, 2014).
contributing determinants for this case. Food banks are initially started to help those in need, but
In conclusion, hunger in America is at an all time high due to poverty and the economy. The increasingly high number of starving children has gone up over the past years and needs to be stopped. There are government programs set up to help stop hunger in American, such as, SNAP Food Stamps and WIC. We can get involved by volunteering with Feeding America or other non-for-profit organizations set for feeding the hungry. Food donations and monetary donations have always been a great way to help out for those who don’t have the time to donate.
I said this before and I’ll say it again, I want to help and also everyone else who cares about the people in need, starving or not. A brilliant man, Buzz Aldrin, came up with this quote, “ If we can conquer space, we can conquer child hunger.” If we can travel to the moon, explore space, make drones to receive information, we can definitely defeat child hunger. I challenge everyone to think about anyone but themselves and help them out in a way that will make a positive difference in their
The United States is a land of freedom, opportunity, and a place where food is plentiful. At least seemingly. As it turns out millions of Americans are going hungry each and everyday. This hunger though, is not the traditional hunger that you may see in an impoverished nation. In The United States there are many areas, “especially in urban situations” called food deserts. Food deserts are places where people have to drive quite a distance to buy fresh foods and vegetables, people who live in food deserts tend to be impoverished, of color, and live in urban areas, despite this many people try to correct the problem of food deserts.
There are so many people in this world today, that are not aware of the huge storage in our local food bank community. Per the Houston food bank the goal of the Feeding America program is to make food accessible to feed hungry people in their greatest times of need. Therefore, our team is gear up to break the food shortage in defining the problem, analyze the cause, identify criteria, potential solutions and selecting the best solution.
2. She started her own family with many ups and downs. Her children, grandchildren, and, at the time, boyfriend made her feel less gray.
On this day I found myself back in the kitchen with stocking incoming food orders and helping with serving food. With the mission serving about 2,000 hot meals a day to families, puts a toll on the full time kitchen staff. Food donations are a high priority of the Mission. Area grocery stores open their hearts to help those not go hungry. With large portions of their food coming from food chains live Hy-Vee and
San Diego has one of the largest homeless populations in the country, especially homeless veterans. Malnutrition is prevalent in this group of people
In 2014, a foundation called Feeding America did a survey on the people they serve and found that in order to stretch their food budgets 79% of them purchase inexpensive and unhealthy food in order to stay fed. This can seriously impact their health, because no matter the age, healthy bodies and minds require nutritious meals. In some cases, food insecurity can even lead to Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity. These are just a few examples of why food insecurity is so harmful. Fortunately, there are many organizations, clubs, and foundations that are committed to ending hunger in America, and eventually the world. The first step to solving this problem is spreading information, and realizing just how dangerous food insecurity is, and who it affects. After learning these things, you may want to help and there are many ways to do that. I’m sure in the past, you've donated food to the annual canned food drive our school puts on, and that’s just one way you can contribute to solving this problem. There are many organizations that ask for donations and will put your money to great use, for example every dollar you donate to Feeding America will provide 11 meals for a child in need.If you don’t have food or money to donate, you can donate