The statistics do allow for a margin of duplication of households and one person applications also count as a single household. Community Food Bank made available 2.2 million pounds of food for distribution to the needy during this service period. Community Food Banks' primary objective is to focus on food security. We work to insure that food is available if needed and also to develop plans to prevent waste of food and to seek solutions to break the cycle of hunger and dependence. Each month the Community Food Bank distributes food to charities feeding nearly 35,000 people right here in Clark County.
Children represent the largest group of people who go hungry in the United States.
In India, nearly half of the adult population regularly consumes an inadequate number of calories. In Brazil, the rich consume 17 times more food than the poor. Globally, 1.2 billion people live in absolute poverty.