The clientele at a food pantry in North Dakota includes farmers, the unemployed, couples barely earning a living on minimum-wage salaries, and the elderly on fixed incomes. In the eastern part of the state there has been an increase in emergency food requests from laid-off construction workers, telemarketers and seniors. For the first time the local public school has begun serving breakfast through the National School Breakfast Program, which provides a nutritious meal to low-income children. In Oklahoma the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma provides food and grocery products to 225 agencies in rural areas outside of Oklahoma City. We need to reach out.
Utility bills keep going up.
The elderly have a hard time with medicine being so expensive. America's Second Harvest is helping to bring an end to hunger in America through the work of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue organizations, serving every county in the nation. We also support strengthening the federal nutritional safety net and reducing the red tape that too many food stamp applicants face when seeking assistance. We have also joined forces with Syngenta, one of the world's leading agribusinesses, on the formation of Syngenta Rural Foodshare .