Join The Fight For a Hunger Free Summer with ConAgra Foods #HungerFreeSummer

Join The Fight For a Hunger Free Summer with ConAgra Foods

Disclosure: I worked with The Motherhood on this post, sponsored by ConAgra Foods. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

As a mother of four I try my best to make sure that my children’s need are always met.  My children are picky eaters, a habit I think they picked up mainly from me.  I do my best to get them to try different foods but I also try to accommodate them when making meals.  My main reasoning for changing the way I approached meals came from having the same conversation with my children about wasting food.  I heard the words from my own parents and then I was saying it to my own kids.  You’ve probably heard of said it before – “You know there are hungry children that would love to have that food!”  Words I’ve said quite a few times but never really sat down and fully thought about the meaning before.  Finally one day at dinner it really hit home with me and I wanted to have the conversation with my children about food, being wasteful and what it means to really be hungry.  One day my husband and I decided to finally have a real conversation with our children about hunger.

One of the first questions we asked our kids was – Do you know what it means to be hungry?  We explained to them the different levels of hunger and shared with them how some people don’t get to eat a meal daily we even asked them to not use the word “starving” because while they may be hungry they are or have never felt starvation.  During summer months 90 percent of kids in the free or reduced lunch programs in school have limited or no access to those meals they would receive during school.  Imagine what it would feel like to be hungry during summer breaks, those kids can’t enjoy the summer like they should when they have to worry about finding a meal.  The ConAgra Foods Foundation has been spreading awareness about childhood hunger especially during the summer and in the last five years they have served over 3.8 millions meals to children.  ConAgra Foods’ Hunger-Free Summer initiative with Feeding America goal this year is to reach 25% more children than before.  This summer, 26 food banks in 18 states will use Hunger-Free Summer grants, funded by the ConAgra Foods Foundation – ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 – to expand their summer feeding program, bringing more healthy meals to more children during the summer.

Join the Fight for a Hunger Free Summer with ConAgra Foods, there are so many great ways for you to join in and help with the fight against hunger.  You will be amazed at how easy it is to make a difference.  Here are three ways to help, one you can do right now and get your friends and family to join in the fight as well.

• Watch & Share: ConAgra Foods has partnered with Kid President to help spread the message. Simply view, like or share this video to help raise awareness for child hunger this summer. For each of these actions, the ConAgra Foods Foundation will donate the monetary equivalent of one meal to Feeding America, up to two million meals.¹   The video is embed below so it’s easy to view and share.
• Volunteer: While providing meals is a top priority, fun activities are also important in attracting children to feeding sites. During the summer, volunteers can help transport food, help an existing feeding site with lunch preparation and clean-up, or do activities with the children. Visit www.feedingamerica.org to find a nearby food bank in need of volunteers.
• Shopping: While shopping for food for your own families look for the “Red Pin” on these ConAgra Foods brands and when you get home locate the special 8-digit code, head to the Childhood Hunger Ends Here website and enter your code.  Each code provides a free meal.  It’s that easy to help when shopping for products you use every day.
• Advocate & Learn: To find meal sites in your area, call the National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3-HUNGRY (1-866-348-6479).  To learn more about the issue of child hunger, visit www.childhungerendshere.com and click on the “tacking action” tab.

Call To Action:

View, like or share Kid President’s new video to raise awareness for kids who are at risk of hunger this summer and help make kids’ summers “awesome!” Every time you take one of these actions, the ConAgra Foods Foundation will donate the monetary equivalent of one meal to the nation’s leading hunger-relief organization, Feeding America, up to two million meals.1

About the ConAgra Foods Foundation:

ConAgra Foods Foundation is a leader in the child hunger space partnering with some of the largest nonprofit organizations dedicated to child hunger.

• ConAgra Foods Foundation is Feeding America’s Leadership partner in the fight against child hunger.
• Through their partnership with Feeding America, ConAgra Foods and ConAgra Foods Foundation have provided more than 355 million pounds and invested more than $38 million in capacity building, child hunger programs and groundbreaking research.
• The ConAgra Foods Foundation, a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity primarily funded by the ConAgra Foods, has a $10 million, 5-year commitment to Feeding America, the largest donation ever made to Feeding America specifically to fight child hunger.

¹For every view, like or share of this Kid President video recorded on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr and Google+ from May 22, 2014 through July 31, 2014, the ConAgra Foods Foundation will donate 11.1¢, the cost for Feeding America to provide one meal through its network of local food banks. Minimum donation of 10,000 meals ($11,111). Maximum donation of two million meals ($222,000). Valid in U.S. only.

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