Mixed signals on hunger as New Jersey leaders clash over food insecurity
Trenton, NJ — On the same day one New Jersey leader raised alarms about children going hungry, another celebrated a national report ranking the state among the best places to…
Trenton, NJ — On the same day one New Jersey leader raised alarms about children going hungry, another celebrated a national report ranking the state among the best places to…
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development will distribute $1 billion in U.S. commodities to countries with high hunger rates,…
PASSAIC COUNTY, NJ—In a recent community service initiative, troopers from the New Jersey State Police lent their support to the CUMAC Food Pantry in Passaic County, assisting in the organization’s…
By Samia Nakhoul (Reuters) – People so hungry they break into U.N. warehouses to take whatever they can find. Children terrified of the noise of air strikes. Families using sea…
Belleville, NJ — Earlier today, officers from the Belleville Police Department took a break from their usual duties to participate in Shoprite’s Help Bag Hunger campaign. In an effort to…
By Cassandra Garrison EL AGUACATE, Guatemala (Reuters) – A few tortillas and a half bowl of reheated beans were all Maria Concepcion Rodriguez had to feed her six children in…
By Felix Light GORIS, Armenia (Reuters) – After the village was bombed so hard there was no way to bury the truckloads of dead, he fled with his family and…
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NJ – The Egg Harbor Township Police Department (EHTPD) took part in ShopRite of English Creek’s annual “Help Bag Hunger Day” event on Friday, Sept. 22, contributing…
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There are 745 million more moderately to severely hungry people in the world today than in 2015, and the world is far off track…
By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH (Reuters) – Hundreds of political prisoners in Bahrain suspended a hunger strike after the government promised to improve prison conditions, rights groups said, as the…
By Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI (Reuters) – Political prisoners on hunger strike in Bahrain have rebuffed government concessions and will extend their protest, raising the stakes in the biggest showdown…
By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. permanent resident detained in Iran since 2016 has begun a hunger strike in protest of his exclusion from last…
TRENTON, NJ – Hunger relief could be a phone call away for many in New Jersey in the near future. A bill introduced in New Jersey aims to establish a…
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Changes to the largest U.S. food aid program in the debt deal passed by Congress this week could force hundreds of thousands of older…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran on Friday released hunger-striking jailed dissident Farhad Meysami, the Iranian judiciary said, a week after supporters had warned that he risked dying for protesting against the…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has started a hunger strike in prison to protest against authorities’ refusal to release him temporarily on bail pending retrial, the activist…
By Arshad Mohammed (Reuters) – An Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for more than seven years on spying charges that the United States rejects as baseless appealed to U.S. President…
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -The United States is doing “everything it can” to secure the release of Egytian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah from jail in Egypt and President Joe Biden…
All SPB Hospitality brands to host fundraisers throughout September that will go towards the critical resources that hungry children need Houston, TX (-) SPB Hospitality is teaming up with No…
The new franchise restaurant serving feel-good food with a feel-good purpose is opening its doors in Cary’s popular Parkside Town Commons on September 29 Cary, NC (-) Zambrero, is opening…
Campaign supports company’s continued commitment to supporting local communities in need following its $200,000 donation to the American Red Cross to aid Western wildfires and Hurricane Ida relief efforts Rosemont,…
Shalimar, FL (-) With a growing number of Americans relying on local food banks for help in finding their next meal, Lee’s Famous Recipe® Chicken will join GiftAMeal as the…
By Khaled Abdullah and Abdulrahman al-Anisi SANAA (Reuters) – In a bare kitchen in her house in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Umm Zakaria al-Sharaabi prepares for a daily challenge –…
By Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO (Reuters) – Grace Melt made her first visit to the Nourishing Hope food pantry on Chicago’s North Side in August. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she used…
By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) – Nearly one million people in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen are starving or will face starvation this year in the absence of…