La. 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign

Contributions to the Louisiana 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign Guide were made by Janet Fox and Karen Martin. Special thanks to Jane Honeycutt for editing this guide and Evelyn Rachell and Gloria Gustin for formatting the 4-H Can Fight Hunger Campaign Packet. And a special thanks to Kara Samson who designed this webpage.

Louisiana 4-H Can Fight Hunger Campaign gives students the opportunity to take responsibility through the concrete action to end hunger. Through thoughtfully designed service learning opportunities, youth participating in the 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign will:

• Identify hunger-related needs and opportunities in their communities
• Increase their knowledge about hunger and its impact
• Increase their problem-solving ability by addressing hunger issues
• Take action to address hunger challenges
• Develop empathy for individuals who are facing hunger challenges

To provide for a meaningful service experience, the Louisiana 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign emphasizes these components:

• Needs Assessment and Identification
• Reflection Prior to Service
• Planning and Preparation
• Meaningful Service
• Reflection During Service
• Evaluation
• Celebration

Needs assessment helps provide direction for a community service learning program because it is the process of collecting information to determine the needs of a specific population.

Once a needs assessment has been conducted, reflection of those needs should take place before service. These pre-service reflections provide an avenue to make sense of the information gathered through assessment. This process helps youth plan and prepare more effectively.

In planning for the community service learning project, youth should help identify an unmet community need. Part of planning is preparing the youthful students through appropriate training. The service project should relate to specific learning experiences and enlist the assistance of service agencies. Good planning and preparation help to ensure that meaningful service will take place. Meaningful service should have academic integrity, be developmentally appropriate for all involved, provide for student ownership and have adequate supervision.

Following the service experience, participants should structure time for thinking, writing and talking about what they saw and did in the service learning process. This reflection will enhance what is taught by providing opportunities for students to apply new knowledge and skills to real life situations in their own communities.

Finally, the service project should end with some type of celebration to recognize the students’ contributions and bring closure to the service activity.

Louisiana 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Lesson References

Finding Solutions To Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference, www.kidscanmakeadifference.org/teac.htm

National Hunger Awareness Day, www.hungerday.org/myth_reality.html

Tennessee 4-H Seeds of Service, www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/sos/index.htm

The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation, www.kleinfoundation.org/main.html

The Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis University, www.centeronhunger.org/

Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, William B. Richardson, Chancellor

Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, William H. Brown, Vice Chancellor and Director

Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, Paul D. Coreil, Vice Chancellor and Director

Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of Congress of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture. The Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service provides equal opportunities in programs and employment.

Assessing Hunger Needs

Before you can begin to take action against hunger in your community, you must learn about the problems of hunger. Teams of youth can investigate different aspects of hunger in the community. After researching hunger, the groups should report back on the findings. Here are some ideas for assessing hunger needs.

Assessing the Hunger Needs of Children

To assess the hunger needs of children in your school district, youth can investigate the use of the Federal School Breakfast and the Summer Food programs in the community. To learn about the federal programs in your district, contact the director of the Department of School Food Services in your district or your school superintendent. This is public information.

Federal School Breakfast Program

Find out which schools serve school breakfasts:

How many schools are in your district?
How many of the schools offer the Breakfast Program?
What are the names of the schools that don't?
What are some additional questions you might ask to assess hunger needs related to school breakfasts?

Find out how many kids who may need a breakfast are missed:

• How many kids in your district's schools eat school lunch? (Average daily attendance)
• Check the number of kids in your district who receive school lunches at free or reduced prices. (This will give you the number who may need free or reduced-price breakfast.)
• How many kids in the district actually get free or reduced-price breakfast?
• How many are missed (total getting free or reduced-price lunch, minus total getting free or reduced-price breakfast)?
• Are more students receiving lunch than breakfast? Why?
• Is it because some schools fail to offer the breakfast program? Is it because the program needs to be supported publicly?
• What are some additional questions you might ask to assess hunger needs related to school breakfasts?

Summer Food Program

To assess the needs in your school district, youth can investigate the use of Summer Food Program in the community. To learn more about this program, contact the director of the Department of School Food Services in your district or your school superintendent.

• How many students in your school system (all schools combined) receive free or reduced-price school lunches?
• How many students last year participated in your community's summer food programs? (The program usually is offered in community agencies, not in the schools.)
• Subtract community food program participation from free and reduced-price lunch participation. This will give you the number of needy students not getting summer meals.
• Does your community summer food program provide both a breakfast and lunch during summer months, or only one?
• Is the summer food program offered at enough community sites (parks, Y's, etc.) so that all kids have easy access?
• What are some additional questions you might ask to assess hunger needs related to the summer food program?

Assessing Other Needs in Your Community

To assess other community hunger needs, contact local food banks and hunger relief groups.

• How many food banks, soup kitchens or pantries exist in your community?
• How many people use their services?
• How many families use their services? How many children?
• Has need increased or decreased this year versus last?
• How much food do they donate to needy families?
• Do they ever have to limit donations? Turn people away?
• What are some additional questions you might ask to assess hunger needs in your community?

Assessing Hunger in our Nation

To assess hunger issues affecting the nation, youth can investigate hunger in their state and across the nation using the Web site resources available in the 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Service Learning Curriculum.

• How many families go hungry in your own home state?
• How does your state compare to other states?
• How many families go hungry in the United States?
• How many children don't have enough food in the United States?
• What factors contribute to the problems of hunger in the United States?
• What are some additional questions you might ask to assess hunger needs in the United States?

Assessing the Personal and Health Effects of Hunger

To assess the personal and health effects of hunger, students can look at the effects of hunger on the body and on the mind. To conduct their research, students can search the Web and talk to a nutritionist, Extension agent, or biology or health and nutrition teacher. Find answers to the following questions:

• What are the health effects of going hungry?
• What are the effects of hunger on the ability of children to learn?
• How does hunger affect performance in school?
• What is a well-balanced diet?
• Why is it important to eat a well-balanced diet?
• What are some additional questions you might ask to assess the personal and health effects of hunger?

4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign Guide Sheet

Once a needs analysis is completed, the 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign Preparation and Planning Sheet can be used as a guide for preparing, planning, implementing and evaluating the service learning project. The 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign Service Learning Experiences found in this curriculum provide project ideas that groups can use or modify to carry out their service learning experiences.

Project Name

Describe Your Project

What need will the group address? How will you address the need? Who is the target audience to be served? What collaborations will be formed, and what role will each group play in performing the service learning project?

Student Input

How (and to what degree) will students be involved in selecting and/or organizing the project?

Academic Component

What learning goals will be achieved? How will you accomplish these goals? How will they be measured? Will you be using a specific curriculum to support this service learning experience?

Service Component

What are the tangible service goals for this project? How will they be achieved? How will they be measured? How will the community benefit?

Evaluation Component

In what ways will the students reflect on this experience in three service phases: pre-service, during the service and post service? (journals, class discussions, photography, etc.)

Character Component

In what ways will this project contribute to the character development of the youth? (responsibility, respect, fairness, caring, citizenship, trustworthiness)

Risk Management

In what ways will any risk management issues be addressed before performing the service?

Educating Others About Hunger

After conducting research and identifying needs, youth can educate others about hunger issues by disseminating information to their peers and their communities by using these project ideas.

• Hunger awareness articles can be published in a school newsletter and community newspaper.
• Fliers, posters and pamphlets can be designed and distributed to tell about the problem of hunger.
• A hunger Web site can be designed to disseminate information about hunger to peers and their communities.
• Posters for pets can connect what is learned in a science or health lesson to educate the general public about the impact of hunger on pets.
• What ideas can be implemented to educate others about hunger?

Planning Activities Against Hunger

A community or school dinner or event can be planned in which the price of admission is a non-perishable food item to be donated to a local hunger relief organization.

A school or community 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign can provide an avenue for competition where classes, clubs, neighborhoods or communities donate non-perishable food. Each group can compete to see who brought the most products or pounds of food.

A hunger banquet, modeled after a campaign led by Oxfam, can increase people's awareness of the extent of economic and nutrition disparities that exist locally and internationally through an experiential exercise. People attending the hunger banquet are treated to a free lunch, but not every person receives the same meal. Based on worldwide statistics, 55% of the attendees, representing the lowest economic levels, receive rice and water. Thirty percent of the participants representing the world's middle class will receive a slightly more balanced meal of beans and rice, and those symbolizing the wealthiest 15% get a typical lunch, with sandwiches, fruit and dessert. The economic level at which participants are placed is determined randomly when they arrive at the banquet.

Empty Bowls creates community awareness about hunger, using “art to effect positive social change” and raising money for the food bank. The Empty Bowls Dinner works, in part, by allowing dinner guests to experience going through a bread line. After paying an admission fee, guests receive a simple dinner of soup, bread, fruit and water. Left feeling hungry, the guests then take home a ceramic bowl made either by students or other community members. Guests are told always to keep their bowls empty to represent the ongoing problem of hunger.

Hunger Health Fair provides individuals with information and presentations on hunger-related topics such as nutrition, diet and hunger.

Pet Food Drive can assist the rich, the sick, the elderly, the poor and even the hungry by providing for their pets. Students can host a pet food drive and donated the collected food to individuals and animal or homeless shelters.

A Coupon Campaign can assist low-income families by providing them an opportunity to stretch their food bill by using coupons.

A Cookbook Drive can help low-income families when it comes to being creative with low-cost meals and canned goods typically found on the shelves of the local food bank. Students can collect gently used cookbooks that can be donated to a local food bank or other agency. Students can figure the cost of some of the recipes.

Pots and Pans Project involves collecting gently used pots and pans. Collecting disposable aluminum turkey pans for Thanksgiving and Christmas would also benefit those families who receive free turkeys and need a way to cook them.

Buy Two for One 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign involves grocery shoppers buying extra food items at the grocery store. The extra “CAN” is donated to a homeless shelter, soup kitchen or food bank.

Special Occasion Donations can help homeless shelters and soup kitchens by making a donation to these organizations around special holidays or personal events such as birthdays and anniversaries.

A Garden Project can provide fresh produce to homeless shelters and soup kitchens while helping students learn about horticulture and responsibility.

Volunteering at a Soup Kitchen provides students with the opportunity to use their food preparation skills while helping out a good cause.

Bags of Hope is a sack meal program that provides homeless people with nutritious meals. The meal, which is in a bag or sack, consists of a sandwich, fruit, snack and drink.

CAN Care-a-Van provides a mobile food drive where a truck, car or van makes designated stops to pick up non-perishable food.

CANstruction provides an opportunity for youth to partner with professionals in architecture, design, construction and engineering in designing a structure using donated canned goods.

Trick or Treat for Hunger provides an alternate activity for Halloween. Youth trick or treat for donated food items to be donated to a homeless shelter, food bank or soup kitchen.

Food Scavenger Hunt offers youth a fun twist to conducting a normal food drive. Teams of youth collect specific food items worth assigned points. Youth can work with their local food banks to determine what items are needed most, thus worth more points. Youth collect the food items in a designated place and time. The team who collects food items “worth” the most points wins.

What are some other ideas that can be implemented to take action to fight hunger?

Making a Difference Through Public Policy

A School Officials Visit can be arranged to discuss the use of federal school breakfast and school lunch programs in their district.

A Day in the State Legislature can be planned to give students the opportunity to meet with their representatives about childhood hunger.

Committee Hearing can provide students with opportunity to the public policy in process. Students can testify during the committee hearing as a proponent or opponent for a bill affecting hunger.

A Legislative Bill can be crafted with your senator or a senator who has been involved with hunger issues to design public policy to affect hunger.

Letter Campaign can provide senators and representatives from the State Legislature or Congress with critical information on local and state hunger problems.

4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign Reflections

Encourage youth to reflect upon their service learning experiences during the whole process. Reflection promotes gains in learning and skills while clearing up any misperceptions. It promotes positive attitudes and empathy. Aside from learning, reflection can provide opportunities to logistically improve a service learning project while giving youth a voice influencing the direction of the project. The evaluation should take place before starting the service following the needs assessment, during the service learning project and after the service learning project.

Reflection can questions should be framed using a triad: What? So what? Now what?

Here are some questions that can be used to promote reflection during the 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign.

What? (After the Needs Assessment Stage and before the Service Learning Experience Stage)
What have we learned so far?
How will it help us as we progress with our service learning project?
What have we accomplished?

So What? (During the Service Learning Experience)
What difference did or will our project make?
Why should we do the project?
How is it important to the clientele and the community?
How do you feel about the service?
What are some new insights you’ve gained as a result of the service?

Now What? (Following the Service Learning Experience)
Where should we go from here?
What did you learn as a result of the experience?
How can we apply what we’ve learned to other situations?
What needs did this project fill?
What do you think causes these needs?
What do you think will be the impact of this project?

To create statewide impact, please turn in both the 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign Report Postcard and the 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign Evaluation Postcard. The Report should be filled out by the project coordinator, 4-H agent or 4-H volunteer. The Evaluation Postcard should be filled out by 4-H’ers involved in the project. Both postcards follow.

Louisiana 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Report

Name of the Group _________________________

Parish/Area/Club___________________________

Title of Service Project_______________________

Contact Person ____________________________

How many people were involved? How many hours of service were given?

How many people were reached or benefited?

If food was collected, how many pounds of food were collected?

Briefly describe the project including what happened, who was involved, when the project occurred and what was accomplished. You may attach a digital photograph of the service below.

Louisiana 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign Participant Evaluation

Please share your comments about the 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Campaign project.

Celebrating and recognizing students' contributions to the service project is an essential part of service-learning. While the celebration should provide the opportunity for youth to share what they’ve accomplished and learned, it’s important that the celebration be fun. The celebration is always more effective if it is related to the service and includes the service partners. Through celebration, students can enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done. A celebration can take many forms. Some ideas for celebrations include:

• Special media coverage: newspaper articles, local TV coverage
• Joint celebrations with service partners
• Showing a slide show of the service project
• School assemblies
• Certificates
• Service party
• T-shirts or items that declared what was accomplished.
• Creating a portfolio of photographs and reflections of the service project
• Have a meal with the service project recipients

Through the celebration, youth will have the opportunity to be re-energized for another service learning project.

Hunger-related Web sites

Children

The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) has one of the most comprehensive collection of child welfare data available. http://ndas.cwla.org/

Children's Defense Fund is a private, nonprofit organization that seeks to ensure that every child has a healthy, fair, safe and moral start in life and successful passage to adulthood.

http://www.childrensdefense.org/

Children Now is a nonpartisan research and action organization dedicated to assuring that children grow up in economically secure families. http://www.childrennow.org/

Kids Can Make a Difference is an educational program for middle and high school students. It focuses on the root causes of hunger and poverty, the people most affected, solutions and how

students can help. The major goal is to stimulate the students to take some definite actions as they begin to realize that one person can make a difference. http://www.kidscanmakeadifference.org/index.htm

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) identifies and promotes strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and improves the lives of low-income children and their families. http://www.nccp.org/

USDA for Kids, a Web site created especially for children, has information and activities on conservation, food, gardening, history, nutrition and science. http://www.usda.gov/news/usdakids/index.html

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Children's Health Protection (OCHP) provides communities, parents and other care-givers with information to protect children from environmental health threats. http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/homepage

Government

Congressional Hunger Center (CHC) addresses issues of domestic and international hunger keeping them at the forefront of national debate. http://www.hungercenter.org/

Economic Research Service (ERS) produces research on nutrition assistance for the USDA. http://www.ers.usda.gov/

Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is part of the USDA program that oversees the Food Stamp Program, School Meals, WIC, TEFAP and more nutrition services. http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading national organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals and agencies across the country. http://www.frac.org/

Nutrition.Gov is a vast nutrition portal of information on food assistance and safety, lifecycle issues, health management and research. http://www.nutrition.gov/

United States Census Bureau contains the latest U.S. census figures on poverty, income and housing as well as poverty guidelines. http://www.census.gov/

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its programs include the Food Stamp Program and Child Nutrition Programs. http://www.usda.gov/index.html

Domestic Hunger Relief

Feeding Children Better, a ConAgra Foods Foundation, fights childhood hunger in America . http://www.feedingchildrenbetter.org/

MAZON is a nonprofit agency that allocates donations from the Jewish community to nonprofit organizations providing food, help and hope to hungry people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States, Israel and poor countries worldwide. http://www.mazon.org/

Salvation Army provides food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless and numerous other humanitarian services. http://www1.salvationarmy.org/

Second Harvest, a network of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue programs, provides emergency food assistance to more than 23 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children. http://www.secondharvest.org/

S.T.O.P. Hunger, a program of the Sodexho Foundation, supports innovative programs that fight hunger in the United States, with a focus on helping children and their families. http://www.stop-hunger.org/

Child Hunger Fact Sheet

One of four people in a soup kitchen line is a child (Hunger in America, 2001).

Of the more than 23 million emergency food recipients served by America’s Second Harvest, more than nine million are children (Hunger in America, 2001).

In 2000, approximately 13 million American children were food insecure, meaning they were hungry or at risk of hunger (United States Department of Agriculture, Household Food Security in the United States, March, 2001).

Among client households with children, 75% are food insecure and 37% are experiencing hunger (Hunger in America, 2001).

In 2000, slightly more than half of all food stamp recipients were children. About 68% of these children were school age. Most of the food stamp households with children were headed by single adults, with half of these households receiving cash assistance in addition to food stamp benefits. (United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2000, October 2001).

In 2002, demand for emergency food assistance climbed an average of 19% in 25 major cities (U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities, December 2002).

Recent research indicates that even mild undernutrition experienced by young children during critical periods of growth may lead to reductions in physical growth and affect brain development (The Link Between Nutrition and Cognitive Development of Children, 1998, Center on Hunger and Poverty, Brandeis University).

The Facts about Child Hunger in the Summer

During fiscal year 2002, almost 16 million children ate free or reduced price lunches through the School Lunch Program. Yet during the same fiscal year, an average of 1.8 million children participated in the Summer Food Service Program daily (USDA program data).

63% of households with children served by America's Second Harvest's agencies regularly use the school breakfast and/or lunch program. 13% of households with children served by America's Second Harvest participate in summer food programs (Hunger in America 2001).

46% of all pantries, 68% of all kitchens and 29% of all shelters report seeing many more children in the summer months (Hunger in America, 2001).

Louisiana 4-H CAN Fight Hunger Quiz

1. According to the United Nations, how many children die every day from causes related to hunger and poverty?

A. 40
B. 400
C. 4,000
D. 34,000

2. People are hungry because there is not enough food for everybody on our planet.

A. True
B. False

3. People in places such as Africa and India are hungry because they don’t know how to grow their own food.

A. True
B. False

4. Hunger is not a problem in a powerful, wealthy country such as the United States.

A. True
B. False

5. If the United States sent more food to hungry countries, hunger could be eliminated.

A. True
B. False

6. There is not much one person can do to help end hunger in the world.

A. True
B. False

Answers:

1. D - 34,000
2. B - False
3. B - False
4. B - False
5. B - False
6. B - False
Source: Finding Solutions To Hunger: Kids Can Make a Difference

Myths vs. Reality about Hunger

Myth: People are poor because they are too lazy to work.

Reality: Almost half of the people served through food pantries, houseless shelters and soup kitchens live in households with at least one working adult. And, of the 23 million people fed, nine million are children under the age of 18.

Myth: There are plenty of programs to take care of the hungry. They don't need my help.

Reality: Food stamps have long been considered the cornerstone federal program to alleviate hunger in America. Almost two of every three people who depend on food pantries, soup kitchens and other related agencies for food applied for food stamp assistance. Only 30% had been successful in qualifying for the program. Among the families using food stamps, only 15% report that the food stamps last through the end of the month.

Myth: People on food stamps are wasteful and use food stamps to buy junk food and alcohol.

Reality: The use of food stamps at approved redemption sites is very strictly regulated. Food stamps may not be used to buy alcoholic beverages, tobacco, pet food or even cleaning supplies and diapers. Among families using food stamps, studies have shown that they purchase and consume fewer snack foods than the average American family.

Myth: Hunger and poverty are brought on by people's own personal failures.

Reality: In today's economic climate, the need for hunger assistance is more critical because of job loss. More than two million jobs have disappeared since the beginning of 2001, and millions of primary wage earners have been out of work so long that their unemployment benefits have been terminated.

Myth: If people work hard and play by the rules, they'll be able to succeed in America.

Reality: For tens of millions of Americans, a full-time job with benefits and a living wage is not an option. Instead, families must balance the income earned by working multiple low-wage jobs against the high costs of housing, childcare, medical care and utility bills. Food insecurity is frequently the result of their budget challenges.

Source: National Hunger Awareness Day Web site, www.hungerday.org/myth_reality.html

A total of 25 people may participate on stage or, if you want to, you can have fewer numbers depending on how much time you have. You may want to select two players from each camp group and seven others (25 total) to participate. This is your choice, however it works out. Let them select a category and dollar amount. Take the dollar amount off the board and ask the child the question. You may or may not want to let their group help them with the answer. The answers are printed on the back of the dollar amount. You may or may not want to keep score. Encourage groups to cheer for their representatives.

Note: QUESTIONS ARE IN STATEMENT FORM; ANSWERS IN QUESTION FORM.

Q. The Food Guide Pyramid recommends that children age 5-12 receive THIS many servings a day of the vegetable group.
A. What is Four (4)?

Q. Cereal, rice and pasta are all a part of this food group?
A. What is Bread, Cereal, Rice and Pasta?

Q. There are (3, 5, 8) ounces in one serving of meat.
A. What is 3?

Q. It is shaped like a triangle and helps you have a healthy body if you eat a variety of foods from it.
A. What is The Food Guide Pyramid?

Q. The 10 guidelines that lead to good health are called this.
A. What are The Dietary Guidelines?

Poverty
(The leader is to tell them if that this is a true/false question.)

Q. Louisiana has the fifth highest poverty rate in the nation.
A. What is true?

(The leader is to tell them if that this is a true/false question)

Q. East Carroll Parish in Louisiana has the second highest poverty rate in the nation.
A. What is true?

(Multiple Choice)

Q. 40% of the children in New Orleans live in poverty. In a list of the top 10 cities in the nation with the highest rate of child poverty, New Orleans ranks (second, third or sixth).
A. What is third?

(True or False)

Q. A family of four is living below the poverty level if its income is less than $18,000.
A. What is true?

(True or False)

Q. The three Louisiana parishes with the lowest number of children in poverty are: Madison, East Carroll and Tensas.
A. What is false? Madison, East Carroll and Tensas actually have the highest number. (St Tammany, Cameron and Ascension actually have the lowest.)

Hunger

Q. True or False – More people have been killed in wars than have died from hunger?
A. What is false?

Q. True or False – Children who are hungry have lots of energy.
A. What is false? (Children who are hungry have headaches, colds and are less active.)

Q. In the last 50 years (400 million, 50 million, 5,000) people have died from hunger and poor sanitation?
A. What is 400 million?

Q. True or False – Most people who receive food from the Food Bank are poor and don’t work.
A. What is false? (More than half of the people receiving food have at least one job.)

Q. This day has been set aside as National Hunger Awareness Day.
A. What is June 5?

Numbers

Q. American’s Second Harvest reported that on a weekly basis (44,325) (149,109) (25,609) different people receive assistance.
A. What is 44,325 people?

Q. Louisiana has (327) (651) (516) agencies that provide food to people.
A. What is 516 agencies?

Q. multiple choice (59 million, 23 million, two million) people received emergency food from American’s Second Harvest.
A. What is 23 million?

Q. One out of every (48, 15, 6) children live in poverty.
A. What is 6?

Q. More than (800, 100, 10) million people in the world go hungry.
A. What is 800?

50/50

Q. True or False – A lot of people use food stamps to buy alcohol and cigarettes.
A. What is false? (Food stamps are regulated and cannot be used to buy alcohol or cigarettes.)

Q. True or False - Very few children eat at soup kitchens.
A. What is false? (One in four people in a soup kitchen is a child.)

Q. True or False – Food that is collected to give to area food pantries is kept at a Food Bank.
A. What is true?

Q. True or False – Lots of unpaid, hardworking volunteers work at The Food Bank.
A. What is true?

Q. True or False – Shelters provide hot meals and temporary housing to those in need.
A. What is true?