Before the COVID-19 crisis began, more than 35 million people, including nearly 11 million children, lived in a food-insecure household. 2 Pre-pandemic data reflect the lowest food insecurity rates had been in more than 20 years, but the current crisis has reversed improvements made over the past decade since the Great Recession.
Here are some local examples.
Sunday Feb 7 is the day of the Superbowl and for us the Souper Bowl. Since 1990, the Souper Bowl of Caring has collected over $163 million with 100% providing hunger relief in local communities – supporting 12,000 charities. All donations collected through food drives go to the hunger relief charity of their choice.
We have collected food and donations for almost 10 years. All donations collected through food drives go to the hunger relief charity of their choice. The Village Harvest food distribution is one way we can be a light unto the world as described in the Gospel. This year with the church closed to gathered services we cannot do that.
We encourage people to support our supplier, Heathy Harvest Food Bank or our ministry the Village Harvest directly.