Volunteers arrange parcels as trucks loaded with humanitarian aid await entry to the Gaza Strip, Aug. 6. The pictures are heartbreaking: convoys of United Nations-marked trucks inching toward bomb-scarred cities, desperate children clamoring for supplies. These images seem to prove that the international system is, at the very least, trying to help. Yet in every…
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Food insecurity is rising in many parts of Africa, with the number of people unable to afford a healthy diet surpassing 1 billion — some two-thirds of the continent’s population — in 2024, according to a United Nations report published Monday. The prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in Africa…
Credit: (NJ Spotlight News)File photo One in seven children in New Jersey suffers from food insecurity, a significant increase from before the pandemic. Many of these 270,000 children count on their schools for two meals, five days a week. Now with schools closing for the summer, these families can turn to summer food benefit cards,…
Gov. Jared Polis has signed legislation into law to refer two ballot measures to Colorado voters this November that would bolster funding for free school meals. In 2022, voters approved Proposition FF creating the Healthy School Meals for All program to provide all Colorado students free breakfast and lunch. The program was funded by limiting…