Posts Tagged ‘hunger’
13
Oct
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration. Tagged: Brad Paisley, food insecure, food pantry, HIV-positive muppet, hunger, hungry Sesame Street, Kami muppet, Lily muppet, Mister Hooper, muppet, Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop. 1 Comment
I’m embarrassed that I missed the broadcast on Sunday, but I think this is a fascinating development in family television. Sesame Street introduced Lily, a seven-year-old muppet that doesn’t always know where she’ll get her next meal. Lily is “food insecure” as are too, too many kids today. I’ve worked in schools where the hot [...]
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1
Aug
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in One click helping, Support. Tagged: Bar Hunger, David Arquette, Feeding America, hunger, It Tastes Good to Do Good, Snacktivist, Snickers. 3 Comments
I’m a little peckish today. No big deal, I just skipped lunch. I’ve never truly known hunger, never had a legitimately empty belly. Sure, I groused as a teenager in the summertime, moaning “I’m hunnnnngggggrrrryyyyyyyy” as if I was the most put-upon soul in the world…but so many are truly hungry. Starving. Malnourished. Dying of [...]
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16
Dec
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration, One click helping, Support. Tagged: Action Against Huger-USA, actionagainsthunger.org, America's Second Harvest, Bread for the World, bread.org, Child Fund International, childfund.org, Feeding America, feedingamerica.org, fh.org, Food for the Hungry, Freedom from Hunger, freedomfromhunger.org, Gone With the Wind, hunger, malnutrition, Scarlett O'Hara, The Hunger Project, The Hunger Site, thehungersite.com, thp.org, UNICEF, unicefusa.org, World Vision, worldvision.org. 1 Comment
Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the release of Gone With the Wind. One of Scarlett O’Hara’s more famous quotes, among many, is “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” So what the hell is up with us that we can’t manage to make a proclamation like that for the world? How [...]
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2
Dec
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Support. Tagged: City Harvest, cityharvest.org, hunger, New York Poverty. Leave a Comment
New York is only one city…and so much food is wasted every day while 1.5 million New Yorkers live in poverty and many go to bed hungry. I’m no math whiz, but that equation just doesn’t make sense. cityharvest.org, rescuing food for New York’s hungry. The Simple Facts: This year, City Harvest will rescue over [...]
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1
May
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Why Not...?. Tagged: food, hunger. Leave a Comment
PLANT A FEW EXTRA It’s Friday–Why Not day…it often takes little to no extra effort on your part to do something for others. Today, Why Not Plant a Few Extra? If you’re getting your vegetable garden in the ground this weekend as May is upon us, a few extra seeds or seedlings can make a [...]
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