Ending Childhood Hunger in America
Children need access to nourishing food to grow and thrive. Yet millions of children in the U.S. lack consistent access to enough food for a healthy, active lifestyle. There are multiple contributing factors to child hunger in the U.S., including household finances, family demographics and even geography. Feed the Children’s US programs meet immediate needs and facilitate sustainable solutions as we work to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry.
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Our U.S. Programs
Resource Rallies
Have you ever seen a Feed the Children-branded truck driving down the highway? It’s headed to a Resource Rally! At these events, 25-lb boxes of food, 15-lb boxes of essential household and personal care items, and other supplies are delivered directly to communities and distributed where they’re needed most. A typical Resource Rally serves around 400 families.
Food & Essentials Hubs
To create our Food & Essentials Hubs, we partner directly with school districts to supply students with food, essential household items, personal care products, books, and school supplies throughout the school year.
Each district chooses how its own Hub will be set up. Some offer a grocery store model, while others prefer to hold drive-through distribution events or even make home deliveries. Each school has the independence to choose the most efficient, dignified way to serve its student body.
Feed Initiative
Through the Feed Initiative, we work to create measurable and sustainable impact on child hunger in a targeted community. In addition to layering multiple program interventions that meet families’ immediate need for food assistance, we also develop and test new child hunger programs. Oklahoma City is our first Feed Initiative community with the following two pilot programs:
- The Feed the Children Partner Market offers direct distribution of a variety of high-demand products in appropriate quantities to key community partners via a partner choice shopping style experience at our Oklahoma City distribution center.
- Nourishing Bright Futures targets families facing housing transitions or homelessness to receive ongoing support through distribution of food as well as personal care and essential items. To promote long-term food security, wraparound services are also provided through partners.
Backpack-N-Go
During the school year, children who receive in-school meals can face the same problem they do during the summertime. With Backpack-N-Go, children receive both food and essential items to take home on weekends or school breaks. A full, easy-to-prepare meal including a main course protein, a grain, a vegetable, and a fruit are part of each backpack.
Summer Feed & Read
Every year when school ends, millions of American children lose access to free or reduced-price lunches and breakfasts. Through the Summer Feed & Read Program, we provide nutritious meals to children during the summer months. These meals align with USDA MyPlate recommendations and include a main course protein, a fruit, a vegetable, a grain, and milk.
The program also combats summer learning loss by providing books and encouraging enrollment in summer learning opportunities such as library-sponsored reading programs!
