Food insecurity remains a major concern and even more so now that we are dealing with a global pandemic.
"Map The Meal Gap" 2020 reveals that food insecurity exists in every county in God's Pantry Food Bank service area which is most of central and eastern Kentucky.
Michael Halligan, the CEO of God's Pantry Food Bank, joins us by phone on Good Day Kentucky with details on how we can help!
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20/20 reveals that food insecurity exists in ... every county in god's pantry food bank service area ... which is most of central and eastern kentucky ... , michael halligan, the ceo of god's pantry food bank is here with us with all the details ho we can help ... welcome and thank you so much for joining us ... morning absolutely ... tells about map the meal gap ... insecurity study ... who does this and how did this all come to be ... schumacher mueller approved a study done by feeding america ... your shoes you want to loose the lord for gunderson ... and uk dr. julia will compile the data every year of ... security ... strategy grew across the united states ... .
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What is the percentage of people who are actually food insecure in central and eastern kentucky in central and eastern kentucky ... insecurity continues to be a significant concern ... 16.5% ... of those who live in central and eastern kentucky are hungry 21 1/2% ... of the children ... , 72,000 children ... aged 18 and younger ... or secure ... .
What effect does that have on children obviously out ... side of just the fact that the ... lemmings are going hungry.
How does that affect ... them in our area ... you know one of the most devastating impacts of childhoo hunger ... is the inability to learn at th same as the typical student whe you're stomach ... aches and you have the pangs of hunger ... your mind is not able to focus on learning ... and ... all children start to fall behind in their education ... because they are not able to learn the same place ... as another child will ... so what are we doing what what can we do to mitigate ... this in and hopefully ... these issues ... also one of the regards goes news.
We provide emergency assistance and honestly every day ... .
Some of the million people wh are hungry and some 20 we do that through 400 and ... entry of new programs all across the county.
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How can people help you out and continue to make a difference in central east ... i would suggest one folks are interested in making a financia contribution your website god's pantry.org ... of errors or secure page for donation version of programs that individuals can donate to you would prefer to donate to your local ... pantry shelf new program, please do not ... something i would encourage people to volunteer this work is hard to fix a lot of time.
It takes a lot of ... effort and energy of volunteers make it work and i would encourage folks to do about policy help us ... do a better job of feeding people that could be national programs like snap that could b straight programs. what performed the program that coul be local ... programs in your community to make a difference for those who are less fortunate in your ... michael, lots of good information to be opening and a lot of ... after watching this reading some ... statistics was appreciate ... what you guys do and appreciate you stop by the ... teachers ... the morning and all yours about people and who make a differenc in the lives of others.
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