Happy April Food Day was established three years ago by Baltimore area bloggers Easy and Elegant Life and Pigtown Design to help raise awareness for the growing number of people in the U.S. who are unable to afford food for their families and depend on local food banks.
Hard to believe that so many people in this country need emergency food assistance and the number has been increasing.
- In the Washington area, 600,000 people are at risk of going hungry; 200,000 of those are children.
- Calls to the Capital Area Food Bank's Hunger Lifeline increased 71% in 2009 over 2008.
- Nationally, in 2009, 50.2 million Americans lived in food insecure households, 33 million adults and 17.2 million children.
Feeding America provides emergency food assistance to approximately 5.7 million people weekly by working through local food banks to provide food to people in need in their local communities. In Montgomery County and 10 other counties in the Washington metropolitan area, the Capital Area Food Bank provides food and services, including nutrition guidance, backpacks for kids, and food distribution through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and more, to more than 383,000 local residents.
You can donate to Feeding America by clicking here. Or directly to the Capital Area Food Bank.
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