Kids who do not eat enough in the first three years of their lives grow up at a serious disadvantage in life. They may be faced with conditions like asthma and anemia and have a higher chance of being hospitalized. Kids who grow up not getting enough food also struggle in school and other social situations. Growing up in this new way of life with a global pandemic, masks, etc. makes it hard for some families to make the money to buy food. But due to the coronavirus pandemic, 13 million kids (1-6 kids) may not know where their next meal might come from, or when they will get their next meal. Children who face hunger are not the only ones too, with a starving child also come starving parents. Coming from Zoey, who lives in West Monroe, Louisiana, says, “We eat rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner sometimes. My mom and dad have to go without just so that we kids can have food in our stomachs”. Zoey wants to be a veterinarian when she grows older, but before she does that, she needs to grow up to be healthy and strong. That can be difficult because her family does not have a lot of food in the fridge. Children facing hunger are more likely to repeat a grade in elementary school, experience developmental impairments in areas like language and motor skills, and have more social and behavioral problems. Each of us can help with this current problem by donating just a few cans in your pantry and delivering them to a local food bank.
Feeding America feeds more than 12 million children in America, they also offer specialized programs to help kids get the food they need whenever they need it. On weekends, the BackPack Program. After school, Kids Cafe. During summers, Summer Food Service Programs. At home, School Pantry Program and SNAP Application Assistance Program. We can give these kids the future they deserve, change can start with us.
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Across the nation, poor families are upwards of 15 times as likely as the wealthiest to be hungry. For one family in California specifically, food became so expensive and too unavailable in June 2020 as Covid-19 outbreaks began to spread rapidly across the country. Once the quarantine was lifted, the family waited through long lines in food pantries, and this became their normal routine of getting the food they needed. Oftentimes they had to drive to neighboring towns just to get food. Every child in America deserves a bright and healthy future, yet Covid-19 has been a horrific factor in child hunger in America. With 30 million kids depending on school meals to eat, school closings and loss in family income mean hunger rates in America will drastically rise. “The result may be your child being removed from your home and placed in foster care”. This message was released to about 40 families in a Pennsylvania school district because their children owed more than 10 in lunch debt at the school. Threatening to send kids away because families can't afford the school lunch is bizarre, cruel, and unfair. Most of the time schools will give out poorly made food when a child is in debt like a tuna sandwich. Children's performance in school depends on being healthy and well-fed. For schools to punish kids for not being able to pay back a lunch debt is cruel, and especially ‘lunch shaming’ the students by handing them poorly made food is also cruel and shouldn’t be allowed in school systems. The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs help keep children fed and ready to learn in the classroom without having to worry about being shamed for not having enough money for school meals. There is no possible excuse for children to go hungry in this country, yet it happens every single day, in every community.
According to the USDA, more than 11 million children in the United States live in ‘food insecure’ homes. This means that the family does not have enough food to feed every single person in the household. Hunger is a problem that mainly affects low-income families, in 2018 the federal poverty level was $25,750 for a family of four, this was the minimum, of course. Over 38 million, or 12% of Americans, live in poverty. 15 million of those were children. One of the most effective ways to help is to put them through the federal nutrition program. Some of the programs you may be familiar with are SNAP, WIC, and the National School Lunch Program. These are crucial lifeline programs for families in need. School lunches are really dependent on some kids, but what happens when the school year is over? No Kid Hungry is helping community leaders with the funding and know-how they need to start summer meal sites. Summertime is the hungriest time of the year. For too many children in America, school lunch may be the last healthy meal of the day. SNAP, sometimes known as food stamps, provides low-income families with money to purchase food each month. SNAP benefits help you with purchasing healthy foods like bread, cereal, fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, dairy products, and snacks. You cannot use SNAP to purchase things like alcohol, cigarettes, pet food, paper products, and household supplies. WIC benefits are primarily for children under the age of five or women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. WIC serves 53 percent of all infants born in the United States, according to the latest figures from the USDA. Through WIC, moms can get nutritious foods for their young children, as well as access to important services at WIC clinics, including nutrition education, counseling, and referrals to local health and welfare agencies. During the global pandemic, SNAP is one of the most effective ways to pay for food for children.
Child hunger is a major problem in modern American society that should have no place. Each of us can donate to many organizations to help starving children and help them have better and healthier life.
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