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Schools fighting hunger with “share tables”
Schools are fighting hunger with "share tables" which allow students to donate fruit and snacks for other students....
José Andrés is feeding Californians displaced by violent wildfires
When Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico, José Andrés quickly became the face of disaster relief efforts. On November 26, the humanitarian-chef announced he'd served over 3 million meals to citizens in need. Andrés will continue to feed Puerto Rico through Christmas with his nonprofit Worl...
Alabama has the Worst Poverty in the Developed World, U.N. Official Says
A United Nations official investigating poverty in the U.S. was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world. The tour through Alabama's rural communities is part of a 2-week investigation by the U...
Why Food Waste Can Only Remedy—Not Solve—America’s Hunger Problem
Food Tank interviews author and food security expert Andrew Fisher who argues that it’s time to take a deeper look at what the anti-hunger movement is really achieving in the U.S....
With Vertical Farms, Food Banks are Growing their Own Produce to Fight Hunger
Vertical farms allow food banks to grow their own produce with high-tech systems in an effort to fight food insecurity year-round....
How a California organization uses discarded food to help solve hunger
This year, nearly 11.5 million pounds of excess food in Orange County, California, normally headed toward the garbage bin, went instead to help those struggling with food insecurity, thanks to a model developed by the Waste Not OC Coalition and refined by its executive director, Mike Learakos....
Hunger Fighters Interview: Alex Hart
Biographic Snapshot: Alex Hart is a Program Manager, National Capital for Rise Against Hunger, an organization that works to alleviate hunger in the USA during climate crises and overseas. Alex was involved in a recent volunteer event in McLean, Virginia to assemble food/soup packa...
Hunger Fighters Interview: Jessica McClard
Hunger Fighters Interview: Jessica McClard This is part of a series we are doing about real people who are working to fight hunger and poverty around the world. Biographic Snapshot: Jessica McClard is a 42-yr-old native Arkansan and resident of Fayet...
New Study Finds That 4.2 Million Kids Experience Homelessness Each Year
4.2 million young people experience unaccompanied homelessness in the course of a year, according to a new study from the University of Chicago; 1 in 30 teens experience some type of homelessness and it's more common the older you get...
Gleaning: Where surplus and hunger meet
Volunteers at the Columbia Gorge Gleaning Project connect those experiencing hunger to local, farm-fresh produce....
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