How will the campaign allow the food bank to better address the root causes of hunger?
Hunger is a symptom of poverty, and the food bank’s services help to address poverty in several ways. • The food that the CAFB distributes reduces the need for families to make trade-offs between feeding themselves and paying for other essentials such as housing, medicine, and child care. When households reduce food expenditures, the risk of inadequate nutrition dramatically increases, making it hard for adults to think and work, and for children to learn and grow. • The food bank also helps to alleviate poverty by enhancing the quality and range of food and support services available to over 700 partner agencies. Agencies can channel money saved in food costs towards providing other core services (such as job training and affordable medical care) which offer clients opportunities to make life changes that lead them out of poverty and towards food security and financial stability. • The food bank’s own direct service initiatives also empower clients. In conjunction with the food and fr
