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In March 2010, 867,948 Canadians turned to their local food bank for a meal—the highest level of food bank use on record.* And in 2009, over 50 million Americans struggled daily to put food on their tables.
In our own communities, many people face hunger as a daily reality. Families throughout North America and the UK are trapped by unemployment or low wages and by the crippling costs of housing and food. Under the stress of poverty parents have to make impossible decisions, choosing between a putting roof over their family’s heads and food in their stomachs.
Every year on October 31, since founder Jonathan White started the campaign, young people trick-or-treat with our Halloween for Hunger campaign, collecting non-perishable food items for local food banks instead of candy. One of Free The Children’s two local campaigns, Halloween for Hunger gives youth a unique opportunity to help end hunger in their own communities—and raise awareness of an often invisible local problem.
In 2010 alone, over 182,825 youth participated, donating 609,225.4 pounds of food to their local food banks. That’s enough to feed 119 families of four for a whole year!
In addition to a how-to guide, the support of a Free The Children team member, and access to printable cards for distribution in schools and neighbourhoods, the Halloween for Hunger campaign includes elementary and secondary school lesson plans to help educators address the issue of local hunger in their classrooms.
Join The Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev and Me to We style and show your solidarity for Halloween for Hunger. $10 from each T-shirt sold until October 31 will go towards fighting hunger in East Africa as $10 feeds a child in East Africa for a month. The more shirts we purchase, the more we can fight hunger. Because, let’s face it—hunger bites.
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