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Click here for the entire Southwest Virginia Report
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A message from the President & CEO "This landmark study released by the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank and Feeding America, reports that more than 201,000 people, including an estimated 66,561 children, receive emergency food each year through Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank. The findings represent a 60 percent increase since the findings reported in Hunger in America 2006. An estimated 27,400 people receive emergency food assistance each week from a food pantry, soup kitchen, or other agency served by the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank. This comprehensive report fortifies what we have been witnessing throughout our service territory. Many of our partner agency feeding programs serve the areas of Virginia hardest hit by the economic downturn and unfortunately the counties we serve have some of the highest unemployment rates in this state. This study shows that an estimated 42 percent of clients served by our partner agencies are forced to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities, and that is a choice no family should have to make. Please take a couple minutes to learn more about what this study found by clicking the links to the right. The more we know, the more we can do to solve this hunger crisis.” |
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