Keep Our Kids Smiling!
Join our One Million Meal Challenge
Forgotten Harvest & WDIV Local 4 Telethon
Wednesday, March 31st
WDIV - Local 4
5 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Despite the generosity of our donors, the need for food continues to grow at an alarming rate in metro Detroit.
1 in 5 children in the tri-county area live in poverty.
500,000 people, including 200,000 children, in the
tri-county area live in poverty.
(U.S. Census Bureau, 2008)
1 in 4 U.S. households with
children in Michigan lacked enough money to buy food that the family needed in 2009.
(Food Research and Action Center (“Food Hardship” study,
January 2010)
128% more people in metro
Detroit sought food from agencies each week in 2009 vs. 2005.
(Feeding America. “Hunger Study 2010,” February 2010)
Donate Online: Click here to make a donation or join us for the Telethon on March 31st and call 1-888-332-7140.
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