Hunger in America.
Thesis: Working collectively to reduce hunger in America will lead to happier and healthier communities with more sustainable futures.
Pros vs. Cons
Cons
People of the town may be against because they don't want an influx of transient people
Someone could become ill from the food, but good Samaritan law covers this
Pros
the town will be cleaner
less hunger= healthier people and families long term and less stress and crime
Local restaurants will have positive publicity
Our local economy will grow, leading to a brighter future
What more we could do to close the gap
Ideas for most towns
model the OC hunger project
A service that picks up food that will be waste at closing time or first thing in the morning.Serve that food.
Idea for my community
The city pays fro food vouchers for local owned restaurants. People can bring one bag per day of trash ro recycle, cleaned up from the community, to the city yard in exchange for a meal voucher.
What people are currently doing to help
Other organizations
Churches organize food drives and weekly meal times for local community
OC Hunger Project
Food Banks
Get food from USDA
DOnations from farms and lcoal grocery stores
use money donated and from govt. grants to purchase food
Government Programs
WIC
SNAP
How hunger affects the community
economic
more govt. assistance = more taxes
mental
cognitive dvlpmnt. delays due to lack of nutrition
stress effects the whole family: co-parenting, sibling relations,
causes trauma which causes generational cycles
physical-
sick more often from toxic stress
Why is there hunger in America
unequal distribution of resources
low income communities
Poverty
generational cycles
