Kids Feeding Kids

Vital Stats

Daniel F

Linwood, NJ

  • people helped50000
  • People Doing It 10

The Problem

This project is designed to help end child hunger at the local and national level. Teachers, parents, and advocates have long seen the consequences of hunger on student learning. Yet, in the United Sates, the wealthiest nation in the world, more than 12.6 million children are food insecure. That’s right; statistics show that every fourth person standing in a soup kitchen line is a child! Hungry children are more likely to get sick, be absent from school, suffer from reductions in physical growth and even experience impaired brain function. The effect on the 35 million Americans in food insecure households is long-lasting. I became convinced that I could become part of the solution to end this social tragedy. In addition to becoming an anti-hunger advocate and spokesperson active in public policy issues, I founded project Kids Feeding Kids, a youth advocacy effort focused on providing children with nutritious meals while educating them and their surrounding communities about the importance of nutrition on normal growth and development.

Plan of Action

Recognizing that just $4.13 per day can provide three healthy meals for a child who would otherwise go hungry makes the solution to the problem seem almost too simple. But it’s not that easy, nothing ever is. Thus far, Kids Feeding Kids has funded more than 36,000 healthy meals for food insecure children, collected thousands of pounds of food to fill our pantry shelves, received tens of thousands of dollars in goods and services, sponsored back pack programs to provide children with healthy food choices over the weekend, and educated millions of readers as well as thousands of conference attendees, about the reality of the consequences that face this country’s food insecure children. We will continue to accelerate our work to educate the public about the prevalence and impact of hunger on America’s children while striving to eliminate the barriers that keep families from getting the nutritious food their children need to thrive. Our partnerships with our local food bank, culinary institute, corporate merchants and local establishments will allow us to continue to build creative and highly visible community efforts that will provide immediate and long term relief in the effort to ameliorate childhood hunger. In addition to our traditional events and educational efforts we plan to reach much broader audiences and affect more children’s lives by encouraging more youth advocacy and involvement throughout the States.
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Physical and Mental Health
Homelessness and Poverty

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