San Antonio’s largest food drive aims to raise a million pounds of food in one month
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Fast Facts
• A million pounds of canned food is enough to make 781,250 meals or feed 40,000 people three meals a day for six months.
• Through its pantries, shelters and community centers, the San Antonio Food Bank helped 315,869 families in fiscal year 2007-08, which ended in June — 85 percent more than the previous year — while food donations increased by only 4 percent.
• The Food Bank, which helps individuals apply for food stamps, has seen a 55 percent increase in applications this year.
• The San Antonio Food Bank distributed 30 million pounds of food last year.
Resources on hunger:
San Antonio Food Bank,
www.safoodbank.orgFood Research and Action Center,
www.frac.org
Hunger Study 2006,
http://www.hungerinamerica.org/ Food Security Learning Center,
http://www.worldhungeryear.org/fslc/
