Hunger Report

Every year, the Bread for the World Institute publishes an annual report on the state of world hunger, the hunger report. As part of the Institutes commitment to anti-hunger education, the report strengthens the anti-hunger movement by analyzing the causes of and solutions to hunger. Executive summaries of the following reports are available online, or order the entire report on our publications page.
Hunger 2008:Working Harder for Working Families
A scarcity of food is rarely the cause of hunger. There is more than enough food to feed everyone in the United States. The supermarket store shelves are stocked to the ceiling. But none of this matters if families have no money in their pockets. Poverty spoils every meal.
The lone homeless person may be the most conspicuous image of poverty in the national media. Less conspicuous, but a much larger group, are the families who cycle in and out of poverty. Families most at risk are those that are just a little better off than poor, surviving on low-wage jobs until suddenly they lose their financial footing because the main wage earner's job has been eliminated or one of the family members has a medical emergency.
Liberals and conservatives agree, no hard working family should have to raise their children in poverty—and yet the sad truth is that many are. Two-thirds of all children growing up in poverty in the United States have one or more working parents, and one-third have a parent working full-time, year round.
Three decades ago, a low-wage job was enough to lift a family of three out of poverty; today, it scarcely comes close to getting them to the poverty line, and without food assistance and other government support a family struggling to get by in the low-wage economy would be on the absolute edge of desperation. Working Harder for Working Families focuses on families struggling to get by on these kinds of jobs, living in or on the edge of poverty. It recommends policies to support low-wage workers and help them and their families build assets.

http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-reports/

St. Vincent de Paul

We Did It!!!!

Keith donated enough bread, peanut butter, and jelly to make 110 sandwiches! We saw the Society of St Vincent De Paul outside our Grocery store taking donations at Thanksgiving time for a food drive. They said that they always accept supplies for sandwiches, so we did it! Wow, what a great feeling to know that we are helping our society. Our count is at 136 sandwiches, that has been reported.

Here is some info.

Society of St. Vincent De Paul

420 West Watkins

P.O. Box 13600

Phoenix, AZ 85002-3600

602-261-6814

http://www.stvincentdepaul.net/ e-mail: Zap-CR@svdp-phx-az.org

You can contact them for their locations around the valley (Phx, Mesa, etc...)

Info from a shelter...

My mom found out that Phoenix Rescue Mission will accept donations of sandwiches and sandwiches supplies. They make over 150 sandwiches a day and over 300 on the weekends. We will be looking into more places and we will accept any information you might have in your area...Please e-mail.. keithsgoal@cox.net

Phoenix Rescue Mission
1801 South 35th Ave
Phoenix AZ 85009-6706

Phone# (602) 233-3000
www.phoenixrescuemission.org/

Getting started! And counting.....

I have been busy at school and enjoying my friends. I went to the zoo with my class and learned a lot of new things about the animals and the volunteers. In the mean time I have had a lot of feed back on my goal and I appreciate the support from everyone.

To add to our idea, my mom is getting in contact with some shelters to see if we can donate supplies for sandwiches.... we'd be able to multiply our services. I could easily donate 100+ sandwiches a month this way.

Wow! so far we have 27 sandwiches from others, I know that there are probably more unaccounted for. Let me know so we can do this together. Thank you again for all of the support! My first delivery is today," thank you Legacy Village for 16 sandwiches!" ( Michelle in picture.)

I have a scheduled "outing" this Saturday so I will keep you posted. And don't forget to e-mail me.

My Goal

I want to reach out and feed the hungry. I chose to make sandwiches and pass them out to people that I feel could use them. In order to reach my goal, my family is helping me with this blog and spreading the word. I will be creating an account for contributions towards supplies and charities alike. So, look out for that soon. However, I am hoping that we won't even need that. Especially with your help. I will post as many pictures as I can as I do this project. I will be adding a counter for how many sandwiches I(WE) pass out and I hope that you can help too. Just make one sandwich and pass it to one person in need. I see a lot of people holding out signs on the freeways and on corners. I will look into shelters too.

Also, if you do this, just make a quick note to attach to the sandwich with my blogger web site. This way, if they ever have a chance to look at it online, they will know that I care, even at 6 years old. Maybe they will eventually join our project too.

You can help reach my goal by sending me pictures of you passing out sandwiches and together we can reach out to many people. I am really excited and can hardly wait to see how long it takes. My mom said that 20,000,000 million sandwiches is a lot and wouldn't even fit in our house at one time. Wow! that's a lot! Sounds like a great adventure. 1 sandwich a day or even a week is a lot!

What can you do to help? Let's spread the word! And don't forget to e-mail me pictures and /or notes about your day. keithsgoal@cox.net