More than 36.2 million Americans – 11 percent of U.S. households – suffer from food insecurity. That is, their access to enough food is limited by a lack of money and other resources.
-- More than 35 million Americans – one out of nine – are receiving food stamps, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
-- 17.5 percent of rural households with children are food insecure.
-- 30.2 percent of households with children, headed by single women, are food insecure.
-- In 2007, 3.9 million of all U.S. households (3.4 percent) accessed emergency food from a charity’s food pantry one or more times.
-- Food insecurity is highest in the South (11.8 percent), followed by the Midwest (10.7 percent) and the Northeast (10.3 percent).
-- Last year, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention distributed more than $1.26 million in offering dollars to feed more than 5 million meals to the hungry of North America, at an average cost of 30 cents per meal.
-- Last year more than 100,000 Southern Baptist volunteers served at more than 2,000 hunger ministry sites throughout the United States.
If you would like to contact an SBC hunger ministry near you or if you would like more information, please call 770-410-6335 or e-mail Mickey Noah at mnoah@namb.net.
