Happy 2017, dear readers!
As we step into another Sacred & Delicious year together, I invite you to join me in a resolution to help those who aren’t sure where they will find their next meal.
Today I’m sharing links to several charities that focus on fighting hunger. I encourage you to post links here to your favorite charities as well. I’m interested in organizations that have a good reputation for feeding others or teaching skills that help people to feed themselves. If you’re already a leader in giving, please lead us to other charities that you know are making a difference.
I think it’s a pretty safe bet that anyone reading food blogs has plenty to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Every day. We have so much to eat, it can be easy to forget that in 2015 more than 42 million Americans lived in food insecure households, according to Feeding America. This number includes 29.1 million adults and 13.1 million children. And that’s just the hunger picture in the USA.
You may be surprised, as I was, to find North Carolina listed among twelve states that exhibited statistically significantly higher household food-insecurity rates than the U.S. national average 2013-2015 (13.7%). The USDA defines food insecurity as a state in which “consistent access to adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources at times during the year.” There is poverty in every state, but in these twelve, more people are going to bed hungry at night.
- Mississippi 20.8 %
- Arkansas 19.2 %
- Louisiana 18.4 %
- Alabama 17.6 %
- Kentucky 17.6 %
- Ohio 16.1 %
- Oregon 16.1 %
- North Carolina 15.9 %
- Maine 15.8 %
- Oklahoma 15.5 %
- Texas 15.4 %
- Tennessee 15.1
So here are a few links:
FEEDING AMERICA
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER
FOOD FOR THE POOR
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
THE HUNGER PROJECT
MEALS ON WHEELS
UNICEF
As you make your resolutions for the New Year, I hope you’ll consider joining in the fight against hunger in 2017. Each of us can offer our blessings in many ways: we can volunteer at a local food bank or food kitchen. We can donate food and funds. And we can offer our blessings to those who are struggling: May everyone, everywhere have enough food to eat. This is my prayer. And the world’s leading organizations that fight hunger say this is a goal within reach. With our help.
Make it so!
Lisa J. Mitchell
some Southern black-eyed peas. Greens are always ideal when your priority is easy cooking with a dash of healthy and delicious.
further! Today I’m sharing a recipe for Gluten-Free Millet Dressing. I’ll also point you to my sumptuous versions of traditional American holiday side dishes, which will fill your family with joy and gratitude!
