No Kid Hungry - Congress Needs to Know

Another appeal from No Kid Hungry; if you agree with the need to resolve this problem, please help.

Dear Friend, This morning, the USDA confirmed that 16.6 million children are at risk of hunger here in America. This latest release of our country’s official hunger statistics shows that 1 out of every 5 children lives in a household that struggles to put food on the table. Unbelievably, some in Congress are looking to solve our nation’s fiscal problems in a way that could penalize our nation’s low-income children. Proposals in Congress right now would kick 280,000 low-income children off free and reduced-price school meals — a devastating proposal given that many of these kids rely on school breakfast and lunch as their primary source of nutrition. Hungry children don’t have lobbyists. But they do have you. Will you contact your members of Congress and ask them to protect at-risk kids? These potential cuts are part of the ongoing reauthorization of the Farm Bill. Some of these proposals could cause millions of Americans to lose access to the SNAP program, and would lead to 280,000 kids losing access to free school meals when their eligibility is tied to their receipt of SNAP benefits. If you don’t act today, our nation’s kids will suffer — kids like Joshua, a growing boy who loves playing sports and gets his breakfast and lunch at school thanks to the federal school meals programs. His family also relies on SNAP and local food pantries to supplement the food they purchase with their small income. If Congress approves drastic cuts to the Farm Bill, it will leave millions of families like Joshua’s even more vulnerable to hunger. We need to speak up for the children affected by these changes now. Please urge your members of Congress to protect children and ensure they get the healthy food they need every day from the school breakfasts and lunches served daily in schools across the country. Thank you for taking action today on behalf of the No Kid Hungry campaign. Sincerely, Billy Shore Founder and CEO

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Two Anti-Hunger Websites for the Holidays

As the holidays -- and all the yummy treats that most of us will be eating -- approach, I wanted to share with readers of my blogs two wonderful sites that help those who may not be feeling full during the holidays, or any time during the year for that matter.

The first site, No Kid Hungry, is fledgling group with a good objective: www.nokidhungry.org. The leaders of the movement are asking visitors to their site to take a pledge to reach this goal by 2015.

The other site has been around for years (at least ten years) and does wonderful work: www.thehungersite.com, and I posted about it on H2Helper a while back. This site can be visited every day, and just by spending 2-3 minutes at the site, without any investment other than time, you can help feed hungry children worldwide, contribute to saving the rain forests, help autism research, promote literacy, support veterans, and help abandoned animals -- it is an amazing site.

Happy holidays!

Why Does God Allow Suffering, Starvation, and Poverty?

I would like to draw readers' attention to an interesting dialogue on Ordinary Hero log: Let's Get Real...Why Does God Allow Suffering, Starvation, and Poverty? The growing number of comments are insightful and well worth reading. I hope that readers of H2 Helper will take a minute to go over there, read the post, see the poignant pictures, think about the comments, and post a response of their own. For that reason, this post is very short -- just click on the URL and go on over to Ordinary Hero.