Imagine not being able to put a meal on the table for your child. Tucking them into bed certain of the gnawing ache in their empty belly. Trying your best to provide and not sure where the next meal will come from. One in seven children in the United States struggles with food insecurity. Food insecurity by definition is limited or uncertain access to enough food. It harmfully impacts the health, development and well-being of children.
Jeff Bridges said, “35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we’d be at war.”
This war is being fought by many. The federal, state and local governments, agencies such as Feeding America, National School Lunch Program, Women, Infants and Children, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, medical professionals, schools and more are all involved in alleviating this social need.
