1 in 5 children in Central Florida do not know where their next meal will come from.
Over 240,000 children in Central Florida go hungry each day
More than 34 million people face food insecurity (USDA).
Many of those same children will go to bed hungry, wake up and go back to school hungry.
Luckily, most of these same children have access to National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and State Breakfast Program (SBP) as their weekday nutritional resource. All Florida students K-12 is FREE breakfast and lunch
41.5 million Americans receive SNAP support at less than $5.00 per person, per day.
23.8 of children live below the poverty line.
More than 3.1 million Floridians are food insecure.
20%, or approximately 1 million, American children are food insecure
17.2 million households in America, 3.9 million of them with children live with food insecurity.
59% of food-insecure households reported that in the previous month they had participated in one or more of the three largest federal food and nutrition assistance programs: SNAP (formerly food stamps).
7 million grandparents are raising their grandchildren on the limited funds of food assistance and social security!
