BackGround Info : According to the North Carolina Association of Feeding America Food Banks, North Carolina has one of the highest levels of hunger in the United States. About 81% of people don't know where their next meal will be coming from. Surprisingly 36% of food pantries turned away from people because of the lack of food. An estimated 73% of households have to choose between paying for medical healthcare or food. About 75% households have to choose between warming their homes and buying food. Another 61% have to choose between paying for a house or paying for food. Sadly 22% have been estimated to be in the military. And 6% are in the military right now. Hunger can affect anyone in our community. We are interested in this issue being that a lot of people are affected and nobody deserves to be going hungry at night. Others should care about this issue because they could feed a hungry but also they could know a person that is going hungry but they don't know about it.. So we are hoping to do a food drive. Whichever eighth grade homeroom brings the most food in gets Krispy Kreme™ donuts. The food we want to bring in is dried rice, beans, canned food, and water. We will then give this food to CPO, a donation service, to have them distribute it to our local community. Hunger can affect everyone. It affects kids, adults, military, nonmilitary, male and female. More people than expected or known are affected by hunger. Anybody in your state or city can be affected by hunger. Since the very founding of NC, hunger has been an issue. It influences some people's ways of life. They live minimal paycheck to minimal paycheck. Hunger can grip families longer than it should. Hunger leads to crime, crime takes away jobs. Jobs provide money, which provides food. Hungry kids are young, and they can’t get jobs to prevent their hunger or their family’s. People can starve to death, to delirium, or crime. It is very shocking what mental effects hunger has on certain people. We should do all we can to help prevent hunger from influencing our surrounding community. Donate or volunteer at local places to do your part in fighting hunger! If this issue is not taken care of unforeseen consequences will occur; crime, death, disease. These local places are sometimes founded by people directly connected to those who suffer due to hunger, maybe even their family. Many places have hungry people seek them, although some special places like the Brown Bag Ministry, go seek the hungry. These places thrive from volunteers who help prepare and share the food. The food comes from donations. Some people don't have enough time to volunteer their service, so they just donate food instead. You can’t feed someone once and expect them to never hunger again. These locals still rely on donations and volunteers to provide their next meal. Food isn’t unlimited to these individuals or organizations. This effort to stop hunger will continue many years into the future. We will always need assistance to fight hunger. Some people have gardens, some have soup kitchens, food pantries, and other organizations. All of these examples will continue to feed the hungry. People will always be hungry and we need to continue feeding it. Our plan is to do a food drive where each eighth grade homeroom is competing for the reward of three dozen donuts! The homeroom with the most donations of canned food, dried rice beans, and water will win the reward. Expired food will not give progress towards our goal of 1200 donations. That's approximately four donations per person! The collection progress for the food drive will be aired on the MMS student news every Monday. All donations will be collected from homerooms every Thursday and kept in the front office after collection and counting. After the drive is over, will give the donations to CPO, a non profit organization that provides food pantries and soup kitchens . Remember, every donation counts. We will start the drive on April tenth. And the first collection date will be on the thirteenth. The second collection date twentieth. The third collection date will be on the twenty seventh. The last donation collection day will be May fourth. We will give out the prize on the eight.Will your homeroom get the most donations and win the donuts? Get involved! Bring your extra canned goods. Make a difference today for your local community! To go check our all the information and researched we gathered click here.
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