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With the help of local volunteers and businesses, the End 68 Hours of Hunger program for the ConVal School District is providing nearly 200 children with food.
According to a survey done by the Hamilton Project in 2020, nearly one in five households of mothers with children age 12 and under experience hunger and food insecurity in the United States on a daily basis. End 68 Hours of Hunger is a public not-for-profit effort to confront the approximately 68 hours of hunger that some school children experience between the free lunch they receive at school on Friday afternoon and the free breakfast they receive at school on Monday morning.
According to Sharon Smith, one of roughly 70 volunteers for End 68 Hours of Hunger for ConVal, which started six years ago and serves all of the towns in the school district, there is an increased demand for food this year and that demand is expected to increase. READ MORE
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