Hunger can be a terrible feeling. Imagine being a child and being hungry and having nothing to eat. Even worse, imagine being the parent and watching your child go hungry and not be able to do anything about it. You may be thinking this doesn’t happen where you live but sadly the facts are shocking. I know I thought there was no way we had children in my area struggling with child hunger! Not in my backyard!
Wrong. I recently participated in a twitter party where they shared cold, hard facts about childhood hunger. It left such a raw pit in my stomach when I visited Child Hunger Ends Here and used their Hunger Map to map out my local area and see just how in need the kids in my area were.
When you think about the fact that my town only has 5000 people in it and my area has 14000+ people in need of food it’s mind blowing. I never would have guessed that there was that big of a need in my own backyard.
More than one in five children in the U.S., including more than one in four Latino children, may not know where their next meal is coming from. That’s nearly 16 million children, a number that could fill 8,000 playgrounds.
SIXTEEN MILLION CHILDREN. That number is just heart breaking. I can’t even imagine how our food banks are able to fight to keep up with those kind of numbers. The shelves must be struggling to stay full. I just showed you how my small area has over 14 THOUSAND people in need and guess what? We only have ONE food bank!
Children who experience even intermittent struggles with hunger may suffer serious, long-term consequences to their health, well-being and educational achievement. What’s more, being hungry robs kids of the promise of childhood – the ability to play, grow and learn.
Thankfully, ConAgra and P&G Brands are here to put a stop to Child Hunger! This year, ConAgra Foods’ goal is to donate the monetary equivalent of up to 5 million meals to Feeding America, and P&G’s goal is to fund up to 2 million meals. Together, we want to serve up to 7 million meals in 2014—and we’re counting on you to help us get there.
Look for the red pushpin on specially marked ConAgra foods and P&G products and find the code. For every 8-digit code at www.ChildHungerEndsHere.com from March through August 2014, ConAgra Foods or P&G, respectively, will donate the monetary equivalent of one meal to Feeding America.
Check these lists for your favorite foods and products:
What to know other ways to get involved?
- Grammy-nominated country music artist, Hunter Hayes, has joined the initiative in ending child hunger, too. For every download of Hunter’s new single, “Invisible” on iTunes, Child Hunger Ends Here will donate the monetary equivalent of one meal to the nation’s leading hunger-relief charity, Feeding America, up to one million meals.
- Take this super easy Reader Survey. It’s only 11 questions.
- Want to attend an exclusive Hunter Hayes event, courtesy of Child Hunger Ends Here? Use your mobile device to post your favorite family photos to Instagram in March 2014 using the hashtag #HunterGramPromo for the chance to be selected for this opportunity!
- For each photo shared, Child Hunger Ends Here will donate one meal toward ending child hunger.
- Visit the HunterGram tab on the Child Hunger Ends Here Facebook page to see all of the submissions and for the winner announcement in April!
- Rules:
- Open to residents of the 50 United States
- Must be 18 or older at time of entry
- Official rules: https://apps.ignitesocialmedia.com/php/facebook/conagra/huntergram/rules.html
- Privacy Policy http://www.conagrafoods.com/privacy-policy
It’s so sad. I always make sure to enter my codes. Every little bit helps.
I love that I can help end child hunger by purchasing products I am already buying. I hate that child hunger even exists.
This is an awesome initiative. I can’t imagine my child going hungry. No child should ever have to experience that.
We always enter our codes , it feels good to be able to help in anyway we can.
i love conagra foods. this makes me love them even more!
It’s so alarming to think of the numbers of kids that go hungry each day. I’ll definitely be doing my part to help out.
Sadly hunger is a HUGE issue in our town as it’s a very poor population. Our 4H collects a lot of food to give to the homeless teen shelter and woman’s resource center.
I’m gonna go peek through my fridge and pantry to see if I can find something on it with a code to enter.
I love that this is supporting kids in OUR country. While I don’t have a problem with helping kids who are hungry all over the world, it always bothers me that more emphasis is put on third world countries when we have so many that go to bed hungry here in the US. We can’t help others if we can’t help our own. I kinda feel the same way about overseas adoption.
I’m entering my codes, too. What an important program!
It’s so sad to know there are children out there who go without. I am so glad their are programs in place to help.
On my way to look for codes!
I didnt know about this. Im searching my cabinets and fridge for these products to enter codes!
Thanks for the reminder to enter my codes! 🙂 We need to fight hunger in every way we can!
I need to sit down and enter our codes. I have a stash of them in the kitchen drawer. Such a great program
child hunger in the USA is a big problem,,we need to take care of our kids here first,,we save codes an labels and anything that we can to help with Child hunger,,no child in the usa should ever go hungry