Why Do Food Banks-A Disgrace, Or A Miracle?

Feeding America is a nationwide network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs that provides food and services to people each year. Together this network is the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief organization. Recently, more families and individuals begin to struggle with hunger due to the cost of living increasing and income from employers not being sufficient enough to feed and take care of a family. Price and income shifts can radically impact the poor and hungry. When prices rise, consumers often move to cheaper, less-nutritious foods, increasing the risks of micronutrient defects and other forms of malnutrition, which can have long-term unfavorable effects on people’s health, development and productivity. Hunger

I volunteered for the service project at High Plains Food Bank. High Plains Food Bank was founded in 1982 by a group of concerned citizens who conducted a survey to see if food banks were needed in the area. High Plains Food Bank is a nonprofit organization, and its mission is to attenuate hunger in the Texas Panhandle by collecting, storing, and distributing groceries to the hungry people in the Texas Panhandle. The agency helps many families every year and is continuing to help more families. The food bank is located at 815 Ross St, Amarillo, TX. I volunteered for the Product Recovery section that organized groceries and distributed them into certain boxes. HPFB is working to help prevent hunger and can provide four meals worth of food for

Directional transition: Now you know the how the hunger can damage our society, next I want to discuss to a volunteer of food finder food bank can really make difference in our community.

In a country that wastes billions of pounds of food each year, it's almost shocking that anyone in America goes hungry. Yet every day, there are millions of children and adults who do not get the meals they need to thrive. We work to get nourishing food – from farmers, manufacturers, and retailers – to people in need. At the same time, we also seek to help the people we serve build a path to a brighter, food-secure future.

One solution to developing something to end world hunger is to basically ignore the problem of people not having the ability to find food for their families. In the article “Think again: ignoring poverty and hunger” by Eric Alterman, he talks about how those that live in genuine poverty go hungry every day. During 2008, a report said that more than half of all Americans experience poverty by the age of 65. More often than not, the poor do not know how to ask for help. Nor do they willingly take advice. Many poor individuals grew up poor and/or homeless and therefore, know of no other way to

In short, many people around the United States suffer from food instability and hunger. People can’t always help the situations they are in, but there are things almost everyone can do to help the hunger situation in

“We feed 46 million people at risk of hunger, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors.” (Feeding America). Because of Feeding America, food banks in the U.S. are able to feed millions of people who can’t provide themselves with food. “Feeding America is the nationwide network of 200 food banks that leads the fight against hunger in the United States” (Charity Navigator) and without food banks or the help of volunteers, Feeding America would not be able to finish their mission. “At feeding America, 98% of all donations raised go directly into programs and services for people in need.” (Feeding America). Part of their mission is to give money to services that give people the necessary food to survive. They are able to do this because of all the support people give and how strongly their volunteers and workers feel about completing their

The systems we have put in place to ensure individuals and families do not fall into destitution often fail to do the job; with people struggling without the necessities of life for too long (HungerCount, 2014). Therefore, the Salvations Army food banks can be seen as a Social Economy institution for many reasons. J.J. McMurtry argues that the Social Economy is based on the community and the individual. He says "people participate in the social economy-not to be non-profit or non-state per se, but to actually make a difference in their own lives and in the lives of other, to build community of one sort or another" (J.J. McMurtry, Pg 30). Salvation Army food banks are predominantly made to focus its attention on communities. Therefore, they are using their resources to help

Every year “children” in America suffer hunger. To help out kids in America, Ikea has started donating. like Ikea many other companies with different programs have been set up to help kids. Many studies have shown that kids are often without food. So in order to help these kids have a better life, people could to volunteer by donating food to different programs.

About 40% of food in America is thrown away, roughly 20 pounds per person. The amount of food we waste, we alone can stop world hunger all together. The point is eat wisely and don 't be afraid to save food for the people in need.

There are issues that come up when talking about these precise geographic are being affected the most without receiving the fair chance of having healthy meals to eat every night. Some people believe that there is no way that some geographies will tell you that you cannot receive the nutrients food one needs to have a healthy diet.There are various ways one can receive the sufficient healthy foods one needs, and it is nothing based on geographic or the color of your skin. “Pennsylvania passed a Fresh Food Financing Initiative, which offered grants and loans to supermarkets willing to open in distressed neighborhoods and helped smaller stores expand their supplies of fresh food.” (Gilligan). It states that food deserts are not existing as of now and it is not an issue anymore. In contrast, there is countless research on how people that live in these “food deserts” are being affected the most are low-income areas as of today. USDA had reported that nearly ten percent of the US population lives more than an hour away from a grocery store.

The location of the Houston Food Bank projects consisted of two locations; 525 Portwall Street and 2445 North Freeway, Houston, Texas 77029. Houston Food Bank is centrally located in the heart of Second and Third Ward and it is not within the confinements of the safest working environment in Houston. Both locations are known for drug activity, gangs and are largely poverty stricken. The wards consist of the original Union Station and residential areas that were once full of beautiful Victorian homes built during the 1800’s. After World War II in 1930, the community became segregated and soon became a fully black community in both wards and the Victorian homes were left in ruins and soon labelled as crack houses. (Wikipedia, 2015). Fast

Volunteering at the Hunger Banquet at Montgomery College is one of the best experience of my life. Volunteering at the Hunger Banquet, I learned and developed new ideas on how to help people with an insufficient meal. At our first meeting at the Hunger Banquet, we discussed in detail what we hope to achieve during the program and how volunteers and attendees can help to achieve the goal of hunger awareness. Our mission at the Hunger Banquet was to help fix Broken Food System in our community and extend it to other municipals. Professor Ruppert, Hunger Banquet coordinator at Montgomery College, emphasizes that hunger is one of the predominant issues in the world. Lack of food often times leads to poverty, war, conflict, crime,

There has been a lot of problems starting the pantry and the different projects that has been implemented, but failed in the end. I see the problem with trying to feed everyone and keeping the food pantry running because at the food pantry, a majority or all of the food is donated or produced at the office of sustainability. Some people struggle with funds and other matters that really can effect how they acquire meals every night. This is where the food pantry is helping solve some of the problems with hunger in the community at Western. Taking something like the food pantry in a larger scale it would be hard to feed everyone especially due to how rapid the population is growing. This goes back to resilience and how there is always a way to come back from an impact. The food pantry is always finding new ideas and projects that could help benefit the community, but funds are low and most of the food pantry is donations and volunteer work. One idea that my group and I thought of was working with WKU Fresh foods and POD to give some donation or help to the food

Action Against Hunger, should be recertified for the upcoming fiscal year because this organization fights against poverty, promotes better health, and attempts to end hunger worldwide. Action Against Hunger is recognized as one of the leading organizations in the fight against hunger. Giving United should recertify funding for this program because if they don’t children in various countries will continue to die of famine due to starvation. This organization is very important because it also helps the U.S government focus on other significant issues within the world. If this organization is not refunded then children would die of starvation worldwide. Since Action Against Hunger became an international organization they can seek children who are dying of famine outside the U.S. The United States government cannot be proactive in this matter period because they have other significant issues to focus on worldwide, and if this program is not recertified the issue will never be handled. In 1995, Action Against Hunger created an interdependent international network (ACF- International Action Contre La Faim), and opened two additional headquarters in Madrid and London to respond well to the needs of various populations.