Houston Food Bank

1. With all respect, I appreciate and I am thankful the YCFB because they have helped me a lot by giving the food pantry every month. 2. I am Ramona Nelson, with this economy, I don’t have enough to pay my bills. 3. We come to the YCFB for the necessity. Food is more expensive every day, and we can buy very few, but it is not enough. With the blessings of God and the YCFB, we make the food to last for month. Thank you, and I hope God keep blessing you. 4. I am thankful with the YCFB for the help

Solution to Food Insecurity Many Americans struggle with food security every day. In fact, according to Diane Beasley, a writer for the CNN Wire, “One in six Americans struggles with food security,” and “40% of food goes to waste” (Beasley). America needs to fix this problem because one sixth of Americans don't get food. Chesterbrook Elementary in Mclean, Virginia has figured out a way to help. Chesterbrook Elementary has taught every student how to recycle and donate leftover food. Chesterbrook

Road Runner Food Bank has been beneficial in fighting the war against hunger in the state of New Mexico. This organization assists in feeding an overwhelming number of people, including infants and school age children. It is truly a blessing for many. Hunger is a main concern for New Mexico. The co-founder of Road Runner Food Bank has taken an oath to stop this problem. This program distributes more than twenty three million pounds of food to our state a year. Although they have ran into some problems

Introduction Agua Rio Food Bank was started in 1993 in Desertcity, a city in the western part of Arizona, it was founded to collect and distribute food, that would bring some hunger relief to the city. The food pantries in the city were receiving food from people’s donations, food drives, or from a food bank located in the central part of the state. There was a need for a more local food bank to supply the pantries and various church organizations. In addition, there were many food stores under development

a bad reputation, allowing others to assume our laziness and selfishness. The Heritage Garden can teach millennials today how planting vegetables can help the local food bank, result in great benefits for our environment, and is an excellent outdoor classroom. Produce that are planted in the garden are then donated to local food banks. My first task was to plant some vegetables. In my opinion, that was the most difficult part. The caramel colored soil that was originally there was rock solid. I stabbed

Low income families are struggling every day not only to pay their bills but to put food on the table for their families. There are many obstacles that prevent parents from being able to provide meals for their family and that is because they are either running a household alone, have a low income, or cannot find a job. “Hunger was associated strongly with unemployment, part-time employment for economic reasons (i.e., because more work could not be found), not working because of a disability

approximately 47 million people receive Food Stamps. That equates to 1 in 8 Americans (Abbott). Food Stamps is away to supplement those who are having trouble finding jobs and supporting their families. There are individuals who take it for granted, and abuse the system. Many people apply yearly for assistance, but get turned away because their case is insufficient, or there is simply not enough room to accommodate them. According to an article, states that since Food Stamps are running out of funds and

are food for school programs were children with little or nothing to eat can get food for attending school. There are also food for work programs were adults can help do city works projects and get food in return. We can also help by supporting schools lunch and breakfast programs. These give kids reduced price or free lunch and in some schools free. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had a $20 billion increase for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program previously known as food stamps

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food wastage, “food produced and not eaten,” emits enough greenhouse gasses (GHG) to be ranked third amongst global emitters (FAO 2013, 6). In New York City (NYC) it is estimated that businesses “produce more than 650,000 tons of food waste annually” (Turso 2017). This specific food waste is classified as food scrap, cooked food which is still edible, but no longer useful to the business due to a myriad of reasons. Whatever

Sharing will take place a little throughout the activity as the clients in group discuss their individual tasks. More sharing will take place after the activity is completed. Group members will share with each other what their individual jobs are and what they contributed. We as a group will discuss how working together on our individual jobs contributing to one final product benefitted them. We will touch on the fact that everybody played a valuable role and that the final product would be worse