Ending Childhood Hunger in America
Children need access to nourishing food to grow and thrive. Yet millions of children in the U.S. lack consistent access to enough food for a healthy, active lifestyle. There are multiple contributing factors to child hunger in the U.S., including household finances, family demographics and even geography. Feed the Children’s US programs meet immediate needs and facilitate sustainable solutions as we work to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry.
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Our U.S. Programs
Resource Rallies
Have you ever seen a Feed the Children-branded truck driving down the highway? It’s headed to a Resource Rally! At these events, 25-lb boxes of food, 15-lb boxes of essential household and personal care items, and other supplies are delivered directly to communities and distributed where they’re needed most. A typical Resource Rally serves around 400 families.
Food & Essentials Hubs
To create our Food & Essentials Hubs, we partner directly with school districts to supply students with food, essential household items, personal care products, books, and school supplies throughout the school year.
Each district chooses how its own Hub will be set up. Some offer a grocery store model, while others prefer to hold drive-through distribution events or even make home deliveries. Each school has the independence to choose the most efficient, dignified way to serve its student body.
Feed Initiative
Our Feed Initiative allows us to test new, innovative ideas within a targeted community. Within the Initiative, we can measure a program’s impact and improve it based on feedback from actual recipient families before launching it in a wider area.
Oklahoma City Pilot Program
Oklahoma City is our first Feed Initiative community, featuring the following pilot program:
- The Feed the Children Partner Market
The Partner Market, based out of our Oklahoma City Distribution Center, gave select community partners access to a “grocery store” model of receiving product. Partners could come “shop” the Market for the items they needed most, and, in turn, use those items to serve their communities most effectively.
- The program was successfully piloted at our distribution center in Oklahoma City and has since expanded to our distribution centers in Elkhart, IN and Bethlehem, PA.
Backpack-N-Go
During the school year, children who receive in-school meals can face the same problem they do during the summertime. With Backpack-N-Go, children receive both food and essential items to take home on weekends or school breaks. A full, easy-to-prepare meal including a main course protein, a grain, a vegetable, and a fruit are part of each backpack.
Summer Feed & Read
Every year when school ends, millions of American children lose access to free or reduced-price lunches and breakfasts. Through the Summer Feed & Read Program, we provide nutritious meals to children during the summer months. These meals align with USDA MyPlate recommendations and include a main course protein, a fruit, a vegetable, a grain, and milk.
The program also combats summer learning loss by providing books and encouraging enrollment in summer learning opportunities such as library-sponsored reading programs!
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