Help hungry families afford the food they need

Do You Know Someone Who Is Food Insecure? Chances Are...You Do!

Food insecurity describes a household’s inability to provide enough food for every person to live an active, healthy life.

One "bad month" can be enough to plunge a household into food insecurity. Lay-offs at work, unexpected car maintenance or an accident on the job can suddenly force a family to choose between buying food and paying bills. Working families across America face countless situations that can result in food insecurity and hunger.

FAST FACTS

• Currently, in the United States, 41.2 million people or 12.9% struggle with food insecurity, including 28.3 million adults and 12.9 million children

• 5.3 million of US households or 12% are estimated to be food insecure.

• Over 1.6 million Pennsylvania residents, or 13.1%, are food insecure. 

• There are 730,886 people in the Greater Philadelphia region, or 12.1%, are food insecure.

• Residents of the Greater Philadelphia region make up 45.7% of all food insecure people living in Pennsylvania. 

                     Source: Feeding America, Hunger and Poverty Fact Sheet, September 2017

                     Source: Hunger-Free America, Greater Philadelphia Hunger Report 2017 

The Coalition Against Hunger works to build a community where all people have the food they need to lead healthy lives. Founded in 1996, the Coalition was formed as an acknowledgement that the problem of wide-spread hunger would not be solved simply by providing emergency food.

Today, The Coalition works to alleviate hunger in the region by providing immediate relief with our support of food pantries and soup kitchens; short-term relief helping nearly 5,000 people annually apply for benefits; and working for long-term systemic change through our advocacy efforts.

Our goal is to alleviate hunger in the region by:

• helping people connect to the resources they need to put food on their tables
• strengthening the systems that people use to access those resources

The Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger

• The Coalition Against Hunger procures and distributes to local pantries and soup kitchens 200,000 lbs. of food that translates to 166,666 meals per year to needy children and families in Greater Philadelphia.

• Since 1996, the Coalition Against Hunger has procured and distributed close to 500,000 lbs. of food to local pantries and soup kitchens that translates to nearly 416,666 meals to needy children and families in Greater Philadelphia.

                      Source: Coalition Against Hunger, Fiscal Year 2017

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