Breaking the Cycle

Food and Hunger

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  Walking

  Mother: Whitney H

  "I have a job and I’m barely making it, so imagine how many people walking around hungry, with a smile, trying to fake it." 
  

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  High Gas Prices

  Mother: Tianna G

  "I don’t have a car, I don’t own a car, I don’t know how to drive, but diesel gas is $4.87. We need diesel gas. How are we gonna get our produce from the farms to get to the market? How are we gonna get our Pampers? How are we gonna get our water? So if diesel fuel keeps going up what are our trucks gonna do?"  

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  Groceries

  Mother: Tianna G

  This was somebody else's cart.  I was looking at how much their cart was loaded.  There is so much food out there!

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  Street Corner

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Tired

  Mother: Angela S

  This is about survival of the fittest. I had to eat out of people's leftovers and I had to wash up in people's backyards in the winter time out of their little faucet, out in the cold. I’ve really struggled. And I’m tired. When do I get a break?

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  Eggs and Beacon

  Mother: Sherry R
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  Refrigerator

  Mother: Sherry R
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  Freezer

  Mother: Sherry R
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  Freezer

  Mother: Pauline S
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  Damaged Ramen

  Mother: Pauline S
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  Refrigerator

  Mother: Pauline S
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  Cabinet

  Mother: Pauline S
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  Packaged Goods

  Mother: Sharelle  F
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  Formula

  Mother: Monique E
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  Grilling

  Mother: Monique E
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  Shopping Cart

  Mother: Quiana  H

  "This picture is of my shopping cart after I went into the store thinking that I had money on my Access card.  I didn't know before I went shopping that my food stamps had been cut off.  I had to put everything back."