Learn about our: HUNGER STUDY 2006

The America’s Second Harvest Network provides emergency food assistance to more than 25 million Americans in need every year.

Our network secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually; and supports approximately 50,000 local charitable agencies operating more than 94,000 programs including after-school programs, emergency shelters, food pantries, Kids Cafes and soup kitchens.

FACT: One in four people in a soup kitchen line is a child.


Americans we help:

• Children (9 million)
  
• Seniors (nearly 3 million)
  
• Families
  
• Homeless
  
• Newly Unemployed
  
• Disabled
  
• Mentally Ill
  
• Working Poor
  
• Victims of Disaster

FACT: More than 35 million Americans are food insecure, hungry or at risk of hunger.

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