Hunger is a problem that's on the rise.
Nationally, according to Hunger Network statistics, one fourth of children younger than 6 live in poverty, while and 63 percent of poor children live in families with at least one employed parent. Those figures show that one of every four children is hungry, while one in eight is at risk of going hungry. Close to home, more than 50,000 children in Greater Cleveland suffer from hunger. It was so successful that the Garden Writers Association of America harvested it as a national project. The national campaign is 5 years old.