{"id":66268,"date":"2008-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/annual-community-conversation-on-hunger-planned-march-5\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T00:00:00","slug":"annual-community-conversation-on-hunger-planned-march-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/02\/annual-community-conversation-on-hunger-planned-march-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual community conversation on hunger planned March 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 25, 2008 \u2014 Did you know that more than one out of every 10 households in Rhode Island experiences food insecurity, which means that household members don\u2019t have enough money to afford a healthy diet? Or that the number of households seeking food assistance at Jonnycake Center in Peace Dale jumped from 148 households during the month of January 2006 to 311 households during January 2008?<\/p>\n


\n\tCommunity members interested in helping their South County neighbors combat hunger are invited to the second annual conversation on hunger Wednesday, March 5 at 7 p.m. at the Peace Dale Congregational Church, 261 Columbia St., Peace Dale. The goal is to build a community where everyone has enough food to eat year-round. The meeting is co-sponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America and the Jonnycake Center.<\/p>\n


\n\tFollowing the first conversation meeting last March a hunger taskforce was formed. The taskforce has met regularly and through a variety of initiatives has achieved significant progress including:<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Promoting the Food Stamp Program by assisting 122 households apply and receive Food Stamp benefits since last April. An outreach worker from the Hunger Center visits the Johnnycake Center once a week to help people fill out applications and guides them along the process.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Testifying on behalf of a pilot universal school breakfast program in the South Kingstown School District \u2013which means that every student in two local middle schools, regardless of family income gets to eat breakfast free. The program is currently being evaluated by the school board and may or may not continue due to the costs.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 The Jonnycake Center served as a satellite site for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank\u2019s Neighborhood Pantry Express, which provided a weekly farmer\u2019s market where food pantry clients were able to pick up 10 to 15 pounds of fresh produce. The Express ran from June through October. More than 16,000 pounds of fresh produce was distributed through the food pantry and other local social service agencies.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 溏心vlog免费B站 30 local gardeners and two farms, Casey Farm and 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s East Farm, took part in the Johnnycake Center\u2019s \u201cPlant A Row for Hungry\u201d program, contributing more than 1,500 pounds of locally grown fresh produce to food pantry clients. <\/p>\n


\n\t \u201cThere is still much more to be done and we hope that everyone concerned about hunger in our community will participate. Several members are working on developing a local community garden and there are other initiatives underway,\u201d says Kathleen Gorman, director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Hunger Center. <\/p>\n


\n\tFor more information or to RSVP, contact Sonia Ferria, at 874-5145 or email her at skhfree@etal.uri.edu. If you are unable to attend the event, feel free to send your thoughts or comments as the taskforce continues to seek input from everyone in the community.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 25, 2008 \u2014 Did you know that more than one out of every 10 households in Rhode Island experiences food insecurity, which means that household members don\u2019t have enough money to afford a healthy diet? Or that the number of households seeking food assistance at Jonnycake Center in Peace Dale jumped from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}