Hunger and Starvation - - Is it Natural?
Prevention and treatment of starvation How YOU can help
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Childhood Hunger
As a community, if not as a nation, too, we ALL share responsibility for obtaining to distribute to vulnerable populations, most especially children. The consequences of poor nutrition in childhood are like expanding circles, far greater than one may have imagined. All of society loses when their children are poorly fed, malnourished for reasons beyond their control. Hunger in a child is a form of social poverty, casting comment on the society at least as much as it does upon the hungry child.
For a country touting itself as the richest in the world, how are so many of its citizens having serious food issues?
- Something over ten million children receive food from either a pantry, kitchen or shelter within America's Second Harvest network .
- Almost one in ten pantry recipients are ages 0 to 5; 7.7% are shelter clients. - These are kids, for crying out loud.
- Of all the households served by America's Second Harvest, fully three-fourths of those households with children under the age of 18 are food insecure; an estimated 2.6 million households.
- Among all members of client households, 18.4% of kitchen clients stated that their child/children had skipped meals within the last twelve months because there wasn't enough money for food.
- Approximately 1 in 4 clients indicate that their child/children was/were hungry at least once in the prior twelve months but couldn't afford more food.
- 26.3% of all client households stated that their child/children were sometimes or often not eating enough in the prior twelve months because they just couldn't afford enough food; an estimated 0.9 million households.
- Among all client households with at least one child under the age of 18; 63.2% utilize the school lunch program and 49.9% the school breakfast program.
- 52.5% of all client households with at least one child age 0 to 5 are enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
- 61.9% of agencies run feeding programs that target children only: Kids Cafes, youth after-school programs, child day care programs, and summer camps for low-income clients.
- 46.2% of pantry programs showed that there are "many more children in the summer," while 68.2% of kitchen programs indicated an increase during the same time of year.
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