Food and Hunger

Emergency Food Assistance

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  Make with these hands money

  Mother: Shelly G

  Let’s say Welfare is giving me this money… every two weeks I get a check but I still have to make with these hands money. Because my kids still need to eat for those two weeks. So they say food banks… the food banks give you canned food. Who’s gonna eat cans of tomato sauce? Nobody. I may do someone’s hair and be able to get noodles with that tomato sauce to feed the kids, to feed myself.

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  Feeding others

  Mother: Angela S

  [This family], they don’t have any food. I had to go over and I even took pictures of the food, the bag of food. I'd go around there a couple times, I'd just take canned goods and stuff. I tried to keep canned goods and stuff and I just kept feeding them because the kids were hungry.