Metropolitan Ministries Research Paper

St. Jude children’s research hospital is a non profit hospital where patients do not have to pay for care. St. Jude produce many heartfelt commercials to get the public to know about them who they are and why they should donate. Besides newspapers, and billboards, commercials where the best way to advertise, now a days social media is the way to go. St. Jude’s children’s research hospital should make less commercials to promote themselves and step into the new era where the benefits will be obvious and better than what commercials used to provide them. There are many ways to promote oneself on social media to reach various audiences and to get their point across. St. Judes should sell themselves online to the public and gain important support

Giving families food that are in need is another great way to change the community in how they shop for food. Many families need it especially during the holiday season or just in general. For example, I am in the spanish club organization and we went in January of this year we went to this house where a single mother lived with seven of her kids in an apartment which we did not get to meet but the lady besides her told us. We went to this other house and a guy was blind so the wife worked two jobs with three kids.That made us all reflect on how much more we can do and give back.

Thesis Statement: The Houston Food Bank uses the efforts of volunteers as well as donations to support the reduction of hunger in the community.

Furthermore, you should not give poor donations for items sure as, junk food that can add to the problem. For example, sheet cakes, holiday cakes, sugary sodas and other processed bakery items. Our group is looking to purchase healthy food to give our community food bank, which includes, canned foods, pasta, veggie, dry cereals, potted meats, and nuts. Besides, U.S. has increase to forty-eight million of people going hungry by 2012, a five-fold jump since the late 1960's. Finding food has become a central worry for millions of Americans. According to National Geographic Magazine. This is not the solution for food poverty, but it removes the responsibility of the government to tackle hunger allowing them to not fix the gap between our income and the cost of nutritional food. Finally, the food banks are a charitable organization to distribute food to those who have difficulty purchasing food to avoid

Considering the following statistics, it is clear why Hunger Free Colorado’s work is so important: Nearly 1 in 7 Coloradans struggled with hunger in 2013, facing times when there was not enough money to buy food for their families or themselves (Colman-Jenson, Gregory, & Singh, 2013). More than 1 in 5 Colorado households with children (22%) reported food hardship, facing financial challenges to put food on the table (Food Research and Action Center, 2013). More than 1 in 8 Coloradans lived in poverty, including 1 in 6 kids, during 2013 (Bishaw & Fontenot, 2014).

Before participating in this project I was not fully aware of how people in my area were suffering and I had no idea of the aid certain institutions provided to the people who were in need of help. Through this project I was able to see that a large number of low-income people in Decatur were suffering from a lack of access to healthy and affordable food options. Being able to go to the grocery store anytime I want and buy anything I need is a privilege that I took for granted for far too long. I now understand that there are some people in the area that have no means of transportation so they must walk or take the bus just to get something to eat. Unfortunately many of the places surrounding these low-income residents are overpriced so they residents are forced to eat unhealthy food. This is why the Inn plays such a vital role in the lives of these people. Everyone in the area has access to fresh and healthy food every single day thanks to the Inn, which for some people is probably a life saver. The Inn receives donations of food all the time from people all over the area. I have seen a few flyers and posters around campus about donating food to homeless shelters and it seems there is always someone doing a food drive. Every year Millikin has a chili bowl event where art students make bowls in the ceramics studio. People can they purchase the bowls at

Join one of our many volunteer fundraising groups to build lifelong friendships and professional networks while rallying behind a single mission — helping City of Hope save lives.

Did you know that 17% of Americans in rural areas live below the poverty line, and out of those 17%, 15 million of those individuals are children? (Hunger In America 2014). The month of September was Hunger Action month and many individuals helped raise awareness by taking the Food Stamp (SNAP) Challenge. This challenge consists of an individual living on the SNAP balance of a $6-7 per day budget for food. Many individuals came to the realization that this is a difficult budget, and does not meet the nutritional needs for a family.

The purpose of this proposal is to start a canned food drive and help in the fight against hunger during the holidays.

Most people in the United States today are unaware of the increasing numbers of child hunger throughout the country. Today, a staggering one in five kids struggle with hunger in our own country (Francisco 18). Not only does it affect their concentration and grades in school, but also their overall health. Over 1.02 billion people in the world are considered to be malnourished, and hunger and malnutrition is the leading cause of child deaths, which accounts for 6 million children each year (Nah and Chau). When most people think of children and families going hungry, they think that it is just a problem in other countries. However, there is an increasing amount of children and their families in North Carolina

Fortunately there are programs that assist families in crisis and can help to feed the children of the United States; however the number of hungry children is growing. Child hunger in the United States has been described as an increasingly complex problem and has been called the “silent epidemic.” (Goldstein, 2009)

I said this before and I’ll say it again, I want to help and also everyone else who cares about the people in need, starving or not. A brilliant man, Buzz Aldrin, came up with this quote, “ If we can conquer space, we can conquer child hunger.” If we can travel to the moon, explore space, make drones to receive information, we can definitely defeat child hunger. I challenge everyone to think about anyone but themselves and help them out in a way that will make a positive difference in their

In conclusion, hunger in America is at an all time high due to poverty and the economy. The increasingly high number of starving children has gone up over the past years and needs to be stopped. There are government programs set up to help stop hunger in American, such as, SNAP Food Stamps and WIC. We can get involved by volunteering with Feeding America or other non-for-profit organizations set for feeding the hungry. Food donations and monetary donations have always been a great way to help out for those who don’t have the time to donate.

Hunger in America can be hard to recognize. With how the economy is now, the effects of hunger are more severe. Many Americans are relying on food stamps and private organizations to help with this crisis. Millions in this nation are currently suffering from hunger in America. Half of that being from job loss. More than 12,000,000 children suffer from food insecure hunger because of limited or uncertain access to nutritious food. About 900,000 are hungry in the three- country Detroit metropolitan area alone. The hardest hits are the elderly, the unemployed, immigrants, and the mentally and physically impaired.

In 2014, a foundation called Feeding America did a survey on the people they serve and found that in order to stretch their food budgets 79% of them purchase inexpensive and unhealthy food in order to stay fed. This can seriously impact their health, because no matter the age, healthy bodies and minds require nutritious meals. In some cases, food insecurity can even lead to Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity. These are just a few examples of why food insecurity is so harmful. Fortunately, there are many organizations, clubs, and foundations that are committed to ending hunger in America, and eventually the world. The first step to solving this problem is spreading information, and realizing just how dangerous food insecurity is, and who it affects. After learning these things, you may want to help and there are many ways to do that. I’m sure in the past, you've donated food to the annual canned food drive our school puts on, and that’s just one way you can contribute to solving this problem. There are many organizations that ask for donations and will put your money to great use, for example every dollar you donate to Feeding America will provide 11 meals for a child in need.If you don’t have food or money to donate, you can donate