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Photo from the Hunger Games Village (aka Henry River Mill Village) located in Hildebran, North Carolina.
It’s disgusting and outrageous that Congress is cutting social programs. The budget “crisis” has NOTHING to do with everyday people and EVERYTHING to do with Wall St. and rapacious greed.
The cuts to hunger programs are particularly egregious.
If you’ve ever been hungry for just an hour, then multiply that feeling, and imagine what it would feel like to be hungry all day, everyday, with just a few morsels to gnaw at – if even that. That is what starvation is, and it’s unacceptable that ONE CHILD DIES EVERY FIVE SECONDS from it.
I have joined a fast started by former Congressman Tony Hall, now the leader of a hunger organization. The problem is, yesterday, the first day of the fast, I was unsuccessful. I pledged to skip one meal a day, but my hunger caused me to focus so much on food that I ended up eating three meals, plus a snack. It’s agonizing proof of how difficult hunger is to endure, and in a way, my failure taught me even more compassion toward those who are perpetually hungry.
My failure depressed me. The children in this picture have no choice but to go hungry, and here I had a choice and I lazily lapsed into the mindset of the complacently well-fed.
Today I am pledging to skip breakfast. In some ways, it’s the easiest meal to skip for me, and in other ways, it’s the hardest. It’s easy because I only eat a very small breakfast – a cereal bar or banana. But it’s difficult because I need my energy for teaching, and usually by 10am if I have not had food then I feel as though I might pass out.
We will see how long I last. No matter what, I feel a strong urge to stand in spiritual solidarity with people around the world who starve every day, and who, unlike me, do not know if they will ever eat again.
I already have a slight headache and am somewhat weak, since usually by now I have eaten my breakfast.
But I know that I can eat at noon.
When will the children in the picture eat their next meal?
2015 Beyond Hunger: A Place at the Table
September 18, 2015
Photo by Louella Allen, courtesy of Heifer International
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As part of the exhibition BEING , Storefront presented DISRUPT: Croquembouches, an installation-banquet on the connections and connotations between Food and Architecture. The event follow a day-long installation by Savinien Carcostea, which included an 9-foot tall cone of Croquembouches, a traditional French dessert, that was on display at Storefront's gallery throughout the day and offered to visitors in the evening.
7,000 Croquembouches were available for consumption.
September is Hunger Action Month. I received these plates from the Northern Illinois Food Bank that show why our neighbors need the food pantry. I am displaying them in my District office this month as a reminder that hunger happens in all communities.
Photo from the Hunger Games Village (aka Henry River Mill Village) located in Hildebran, North Carolina.
Photo from the Hunger Games Village (aka Henry River Mill Village) located in Hildebran, North Carolina.
2015 Beyond Hunger: A Place at the Table
September 18, 2015
Photo by Louella Allen, courtesy of Heifer International
2015 Beyond Hunger: A Place at the Table
September 18, 2015
Photo by Louella Allen, courtesy of Heifer International
Photo from the Hunger Games Village (aka Henry River Mill Village) located in Hildebran, North Carolina.
Good Friday 2022 community outreach - these are the faces of hunger and food challenged in Miami today.
City College staff, from all departments, joined Farmshare of America and Strike Out Hunger Food Drive in Alachua County to make a difference this holiday season. Over 800 families received an estimated 20 pounds of perishable and non-perishable food items. Great Job!!! The Team led by Gloria Ashley: Alicia Aikens, Gloria Ashley, Diane Colson, Renelle Debose, Mirvat Jamal, Ray Matura, Monica Pozo, Terra Slater.
2015 Beyond Hunger: A Place at the Table
September 18, 2015
Photo Credit: Lacey West, courtesy of Heifer International
Photo from the Hunger Games Village (aka Henry River Mill Village) located in Hildebran, North Carolina.