Donate to the Hugo Good Neighbors Food Shelf in March
Now through April 7, you can make your donation to the Hugo Good Neighbors Food Shelf go even further.
For more than 30 years, Minnesota FoodShare, a program of the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches (GMCC), has coordinated the March Campaign. The campaign brings together thousands of families, companies, faith communities, schools, and civic groups to raise a significant percentage of the annual food distributed by its recipient food shelves.
All of the donations received by Minnesota FoodShare are distributed to food shelves who participate in the March Campaign.
As the need for food assistance in our community continues to grow, your help is needed now more than ever.
To make a secure online donation, visit
www.hugofoodshelf.org or make checks payable to Hugo Good Neighbors Food Shelf and mail to:
Hugo Good Neighbors Food Shelf
PO Box 373
Hugo, MN 55038
Hunger Facts
- Nearly one in ten Minnesotans experience food insecurity. (1)
- 13.8% of children in Minnesota are food insecure. (2)
- 9.5% of Minnesotans live below the poverty level. (3)
- Over 3,000,000 visits were made to Minnesota food shelves each year, 2011-2017, with over 3.4 million visits in 2017. (4)
- The number of food insecure seniors and seniors utilizing food shelves continues to increase. (5)
Minnesota’s charitable food system (food shelves and food banks, meal programs, etc.) continues to run at capacity. Supporting government programs like SNAP (“food stamps”) and creating a more just and equitable food system are integral parts of meeting the needs of food insecure households and working toward ending hunger in our communities.
Definitions
Food security is “access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life.” (6)
Food insecurity means access to adequate food is inconsistent and limited by a lack of money and other resources throughout the year. Food insecure households report their diets to be of reduced quality, variety, or desirability and/or experience disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake. (7)
Equitable access to food means all individuals have “a voice in and access to a nourishing food system,” regardless of race, socioeconomic class, location, gender, and other social identities. (8)
“Food justice is the concept that communities have the right to grow, sell, and eat healthy, affordable, culturally appropriate food whose production supports the well-being of the land, workers, and animals.” Food justice is based on the idea that “access to nourishing food is a basic human right.” (9)
- US Department of Agriculture, Household Food Security in the United States, 2017
- Feeding America, Map the Meal Gap, 2015
- U.S. Census Bureau, Decennial Census and American Community Survey.
- http://www.hungersolutions.org/data-posts/food-shelves-see-record-number-of-visits-in-2017/
- http://www.hungersolutions.org/data-posts/food-shelves-see-record-number-of-visits-in-2017/
- US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2016
- US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2016
- https://www.extension.iastate.edu/localfoods/resources-2/food-systems-equity/
- https://www.extension.iastate.edu/localfoods/resources-2/food-systems-equity/
