Hunger will not end until its root causes – lack of job training, education, transportation, childcare, literacy, affordable housing, healthcare, drug treatment just to name a few – are addressed.
Through advocacy the Food Bank works to support and strengthen programs and policies that guarantee adequate nutrition for everyone. We believe that unnecessary barriers should be removed from the food assistance system so that people who are threatened by hunger can meet their basic needs.
Who is hungry in Delaware? Click here to read the 2010 Hunger in America Study – we need to share this information with government agencies and elected officials and ask them to make policy decisions that are fair to low-income Delawareans. Write, call or email your legislators and let them know that ending hunger in Delaware is an important issue that must be addressed. Click here to find your legislator.
Research on hunger and poverty:
Children’s Defense Fund: Children in the States – State Profile: Delaware