Hunger, Local
Central Texas Food Bank and Austin Voices for Education and Youth are offering multiple food distribution sites during Spring Break for Austin families. Austin ISD will resume meal programs on March 23, ifschool cancellations continue.
Hunger, Local
SOURCE: STATESMAN Despite a wet cold front that blew in overnight, the crowd of college students began forming outside an hour before sunrise Friday morning. At Austin Community College’s Riverside campus, the students lined up with bags or wagons, hoping for a chance...
Hunger, Local
SOURCE: AUSTIN 360 I’ve been trying to bring my own lunch to work more lately, but last week, I went out to eat. With $5 in my pocket, I joined my son at his Austin ISD elementary school, where we both ate the school lunch. As I’ve written before, he eats the school...
Hunger, National
SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES HELSINKI, Finland — “Happy hour” at the S-market store in the working-class neighborhood of Vallila happens far from the liquor aisles and isn’t exactly convivial. Nobody is here for drinks or a good time. They’re looking for a steep...
Hunger, National
Sourc: Los Angeles Times Across the planet, more than a billion tons of essential, nutritious, life-sustaining food goes to waste each year. It is being eaten by weevils in sub-Saharan Africa and inadvertently passed over by harvesters in the rice fields of Southeast...
Hunger, Local
SOURCE: Community Impact Newspaper If all of Austin’s food service organizations had unlimited time and resources to connect with organizations that feed the hungry, there may be no need for a nonprofit such as Keep Austin Fed. But connecting unused food to those in...
