My colleague, Allison wrote a post about “Childhood Hunger”. She brings up the Texas campaign which is a part of Share Our Strength’s national No Kid Hungry Campaign.
Since Texas is one of the states with the highest food insecurity rate in the nation, so the state should do something better to solve this problem. Texas also has the high percentage of uninsured children and birth rate in the nation. Therefore, “The purpose of the campaign is to end food insecurity in children by 2015. Food insecurity is when a person consistently faces hunger or lives in fear of starvation.”
I agree with Allison that this is an amazing program Texas is joining. This is something we can do to stop children hunger. Hunger is a problem to the children in our state. “More than 1.8 million children in Texas are at risk of hunger” Ludwig said. That’s a really big number so No Kid Hungry Campaign must be doing well to stop before that number increases. Kids need nutritious meals to survive, to learn well. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially to children. Children need breakfast to develop their brains, and to have better standardize test score, better behavior at school. Therefore, the campaign will provide food to all kids from incomes levels at school and even at home, which is very good program to support all poor families with low incomes.
The program is not only providing kids healthy meal, but also teaching them about nutrition goes along. Kids need to know how important a meal is. Breakfasts, lunches and snacks are provided at school and even during the summer.
I think this is a very helpful program so far since it helps all hungry children in our state. To make this project even better, they ask more people to get involved in distributing meals to more children. Texas is a growing state. There are a lot of people moving in, so we should solve this problem before many more problems occur.
Of course, No Kid Hungry Campaign is not like the best solution to solve the problems; but at least, it helps Texas to reduce the number of uninsured children and families who have low incomes and are not able to afford it. Texas is doing a great job to help children right now and builds a better future for our children.
