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The People Have Spoken... And They Are Hungry.
  

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Look Who's Talking About Us!

ECS to Focus on Growing Hunger Needs

Click here to read Melodie Woerman's report in The Harvest.

 

Culinary Cornerstones featured in Episcopal Life!

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The Kansas City Star's Bill Tammeus says,

"We wither without sustenance"

Click here to read his column.

 

 

"Cooking up solutions to end poverty's cycle"

Click here to get the story from Star columnist Rhonda Chriss Lokeman.

 
  

Getting Tough on Hunger

Forget the whole red state-blue state thing. We’re talking about the state of hunger—a state so great that in 2008 Episcopal Community Services will focus its efforts solely on feeding God’s hungry people in our community.
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They are unemployed, homeless and poor. Many are disabled. Some are “working poor.”
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About 10 percent of area households are “food insecure.” Episcopal Community Services and its Episcopal Hunger Relief Network are building coalitions, bringing together people in the public, private and faith sectors to find solutions for those living in poverty.  And those solutions are adding up:
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·         550,000+ meals served in 2007
·         500+ meals daily in the Kansas City Community Kitchen
·         200+ served on Saturdays through Breakfast at St. Paul’s
·         More than a dozen hot food programs and parish food pantries on both sides of the state line are engaging volunteers to provide meals, groceries and other support to hungry men, women and children.
·         Meals on Wheels sustains homebound seniors.
·         Beginning in August, a new backpack program brings Episcopal parishes and public schools together to send hungry school-age children home with enough food for the weekend.

  

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It’s a Snack Attack!
Seven parishes in the Episcopal Hunger Relief Network have partnered with neighboring public schools and Harvesters to make sure that kids don’t go hungry on the weekends. Many families living in poverty rely on free school breakfasts and lunches for their school-age children. Often those children don’t have enough to eat between Friday and Monday. Enter “BackSnacks.” To learn more, click here.

Check us out on Donor Edge at the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.

     With your support, our programs will serve more than a half million meals this year--more than merely a “chicken in every pot,” that’s hot, daily lunches, weekend breakfasts, community suppers and armloads of groceries for the people we serve through the Kansas City Community Kitchen, Meals on Wheels and the pantries and feeding programs of the Episcopal Hunger Relief Network. Click here to donate today.

      

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