2016 Hunger Offering Hunger Relief Fast Facts This

2016 Hunger Offering Hunger Relief Fast Facts This resource is provided by the gifts of Alabama Baptists through the Cooperative Program.

Food Insecure Definition: Very low food security a USDA term that means one or more people in the household were hungry over the course of the year because of inability to afford enough food.

Child Poverty

25¢ per day provides a child with all the vitamins and nutrients needed to grow up healthy.

In 2013, 5. 4 million seniors (over age 60), or 1 in 10 of all seniors were food insecure.

Under-nutrition Millions of poor children suffer chronic undernutrition. This can lead to: impaired cognitive development, growth failure, physical weakness, anemia, and stunting. [Tufts University School of Nutrition] Even mild undernutrition during critical periods of growth leads to: Impaired Stunted cognitive growth development Anemia

Hunger Increasing 18 million children lived in food-insecure households An increase of 15% over the previous year. [USDA/ERS, Household Food Security in the United States]

Hungry Seniors 30% of client households with seniors had to choose between buying food and paying for utilities and heating fuel. [Hunger in America 2012]

Hungry Working Families Nearly half of all nonelderly low-income families that used a food pantry last year were working families with children. [Urban Institute, Many Families Turn to Food Pantries for Help]

Poverty 70% of all client households served by the America's Second Harvest Network have annual incomes below the federal poverty line. $

40 Million Americans It is estimated that during 2012, 40 million people lived in households that at some time were unable to acquire enough food because of insufficient money.

Children Overall, households with children had more than twice the rate of food insecurity as those without children.

Meals frequently skipped 9 million people, including 3 million children, live in homes that experience hunger where meals are frequently skipped or individuals go without food for a whole day. [U. S. Department of Agriculture, Household Food Security in the United States, 2008]

Alabama’s Hunger

Alabama’s Hunger 19. 2% of population is food insecure That is 919, 670 Alabamians (Feeding America, Map the Meal Gap)

Alabama’s Hunger Current state unemployment rate is 5. 8% Families’ struggle to afford necessities follows closely on their employment status and wages—and the most basic necessity is food.

Alabama’s Hunger According to *FRAC, Alabama has the 2 nd highest food hardship rate in the nation (25. 2% of the population) 1. 2 Million Alabamians *Food Research & Action Center Inc

Alabama’s Hunger With relation to the *SNAP program, the participation rate of eligible persons in Alabama is 65% (FRAC 2010 State of the States report) *Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

What Southern Baptists are doing about the plight of Hunger in North America:

Over $1. 1 million in Domestic Hunger Funds was distributed to 1, 800 hunger ministries in the U. S. in 2012. Over 5 million meals were fed to the hungry in North American with Domestic Hunger Funds.

The Gospel was shared with over 1 million people, at their point of need. There were over 30, 000 professions of faith through hunger ministries.

2016 Hunger Offering

A Dollar In – A Dollar Out Because personnel and volunteers are already in place, and promotional expenses come through other budgets. . . 100% of your gift is used to minister to the hungry in Jesus’ name A dollar in…a dollar out to help hungry people! No other relief organization can make this promise!

Alabama Hunger Offering Hunger Relief Fast Facts This resource is provided by the gifts of Alabama Baptists through the Cooperative Program.