Grow with Grace "The truth is, the world possesses the food, the knowledge, the capacity and the skills not only to confront the challenges of food insecurity and malnutrition but to end hunger. What we need, what we are missing, is the requisite global public will to embrace the fierce urgency of now to address this great failure in our common humanity." ﹣Pope Francis, Address to United Nations World Food Program, June 13, 2016
Around the world, hunger affects too many children, women, and men. One in nine people (795 million) are undernourished, and three million children die each year from lack of access to healthy food. While the vast majority of the world's hungry population lives in developing countries, hunger starvation persists in even the most prosperous nations. Nearly 50 million Americans are impacted by hunger, malnutrition, and lack of food security, and one in five children go to bed hungry every day. Help by praying that all that all people have access to nutritious and sustaining food .
Too many of our neighbors are one flat tire or illness away from facing hunger. Parents skip meals so their kids can eat; seniors skip meals so they can pay for needed medications.
When families face problems like these, organizations like Second Harvest Heartland are a safety net they can depend on to keep food on the table. They work with other hunger relief partners to find new solutions to keep the safety net strong year after year. Last year they served more than half a million people providing more than 97 million meals to people in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Totino-Grace will host a food drive through Thanksgiving
While most non-perishable food items are helpful, the following are currently high need items: canned tuna, mayonnaise, canned meals, mac and cheese cups or boxes, juice boxes, pudding cups, crackers/chips, flavored rice, cereal, tuna and hamburger helpers, peanut butter
There are currently more than half a million hungry people in Minnesota who access existing hunger relief programs. The programs include the Emergency Food System (food banks, food shelves and hot meal site), SNAP (income-based Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), and other federal nutrition programs. In spite of all of these access points, hungry Minnesotans still miss more than 100 million meals each year, with 40% of the gap in meals existing within rural areas. COVID-19 has increased these numbers, with a spike of those facing food insecurity in September 2020. Learn More about Hunger in Minnesota.
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