Tag: children
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Celebrate FAKH’s Pasta Bowl campaign with a delicious sauce from Impellizzeri’s
The report also reveals that childhood food insecurity is not only widespread in our region, but is also on the rise. In the FAKH service area, last year’s study identified four counties with childhood food insecurity rates exceeding 20%. However, this year, an alarming 36 counties within our service area report childhood food insecurity rates…
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Elizabethtown eateries support FAKH’s campaign to feed kids.
June 21, 2024 – Elizabethtown eateries J.R. Neighbors and The Original Impellizzeri’s Pizza have pledged to support Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland (FAKH) during their second annual Pasta Bowl campaign. The annual summer campaign is designed to combat childhood food insecurity within FAKH’s 42-county service area. Every donation goes directly towards supporting Feeding Kids programs, including…
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2024 Summer EBT for KY families to help against childhood hunger
June 12, 2024 – The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (SEBT) is a U.S. federal assistance program designed to address the issue of food insecurity among students during the summer months. This program will help provide grocery benefits to eligible families with school aged children. Families will receive $120 per child, loaded onto the participating family’s…
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FAKH announces new school food pantry partnership to feed local kids
Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland (FAKH) has announced partnerships with Allen, Caldwell, Logan, Russell and Washington County School Districts, as well as Caverna Independent School District to support a new School Pantry Pilot Program within these school systems. The program seeks to improve food security among students and their families by providing perishable and non-perishable food…
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REALTOR® Association of Southern Kentucky & FAKH distribute more than 664,884 servings to southern Kentucky families.
REALTOR® Association of Southern Kentucky (RASK) and Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland (FAKH), teamed up to distribute a total of 664,884 servings of food to southern Kentucky families. The food was delivered to 10 school districts in April, including Warren County, Bowling Green Independent, Allen County, Barren County, Caverna Independent, Butler County, Edmonson County, Simpson County,…
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FAKH BackPack program expands to help Kentucky kids facing hunger
n the coming weeks, school will begin across Kentucky’s Heartland. The free school meals students depend on are no longer available, unless their family qualifies through a lengthy application process which hinges on their income. If a family is above the income requirements, then they will have to pay full or reduced price for school…
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Without school meals for all, Kentucky children face hunger this summer.
Over the next three months, thousands of children in Kentucky will spend their Summer worried, irritated, and sad all because of one thing – hunger. School administrators, like Leah Feagin, are anxious for the children that depend on school meals year-round. The following Op-Ed, written by Feagin, demonstrates the urgency with which we must address…
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Fall 2017 “Give a Day for Hunger” Event
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The Truth About Education and Hunger
In a society that often relies on social media and/or the internet for their daily news, it’s easy to see how misconceptions can quickly become “truth”. As a hunger relief organization, we see instances of this all the time as it pertains to the more than 174,000 people we serve each year. One of these…