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...study, "Children Are Hungry in Massachusetts," was conducted in conjunction with the Massachusetts Anti-Hunger Coalition and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
These statistics, compiled by Project Bread, an anti-hunger organization, are the target of a Cambridge food policy proposal that would guarantee all citizens the right to food. If passed, the policy would call on the city to coordinate its welfare services and raise awareness of the problem of hunger within Cambridge, City Councillors said...
...Food and shelter are basic needs, but we've never really dealt with them... We have a housing policy but no food policy," Cyr said. "Hunger is a problem we don't take seriously...
According to Project Bread's statewide study on childhood hunger, one out of four children may be hungry, 80,000 children under 12 are going hungry and 115,000 children under 12 are at risk of being hungry...
...preventive medicine, a few American communities have started up their own public-health-education programs. One of the most promising is in the Mississippi Delta counties of Humphreys and Leflore, where nearly half the primarily black population lives under the national poverty line. Three years ago, the Freedom from Hunger Foundation joined two state agencies to create the Partners for Improved Nutrition and Health. The program enlists volunteers, such as Bertha Thurman, to serve as health advisers in their communities. After completing a 10-week training course, Thurman has become a crucial bridge to the medical system. "We get called...