According to No Kid Hungry, 80% of teachers observed the negative impact of hunger on concentration, 76% saw decreased academic performance, and 62% saw increased behavioral issues4. https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/how-does-hunger-affect-learning  ...

High School Senior Yacine B. (excerpt)Freedom and Citizenship Civic Leadership Project(https://freedomandcitizenship.columbia.edu/food-insecurity-poetry-22) I woke up scratching at my stomach, as if I have allergiesI rubbed and rubbed but it wasn’t going to stop...

Food Insecurity Correlation With Violence Another study by the National Institutes of Health noted that the predicted probability of early childhood exposure to violence and/or victimization in the home is nearly six times greater in persistently food-insecure...

Imagine Imagine as you hear this songPerhaps too young too hum alongPlease hold this thought for a whileYou now help another child https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/song-sprite# #nokidhungry #teamnkh_ #EndChildFoodInsecurity 🎵📚🎥      ...

The Art of Eating (excerpt)by Diane Wakoski …By eating, we transform the world into us. First, though, we must eat. That takes money,and work, and time, and then we must workto digest what we have eaten.But eating is also a pleasure, of course,and pleasure is...