Hunger in Western North Carolina

Hunger is a condition of poverty

Hunger has a price.
Medical problems, learning difficulties, headaches and fatigue
are all the result of not having enough to eat.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau's States and County Quickfacts 2000

Out of total clients in households served by MANNA FoodBank and documented by Hunger in America 2001:

  • 71% of households w/children are food insecure
  • 42% have at least one employed adult in the home
  • 53% chose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel
  • 28% chose between paying for food and paying their rent or mortgage bill
  • 30% chose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care
  • 46% have one household member in poor health
  • 37% receive Food Stamp Program benefits, but it's likely that many more are eligible

Nearly two million elderly Americans face at least one of two terrible dilemmas: Whether to pay their rent or buy food, or whether to pay for medicine or buy food. Those are choices no American should have to make.
-Senior Citizens on the Bread Line The New York Times 4/11/97

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MANNA FOODBANK
627 Swannanoa River Road
Asheville, NC 28805-2445
Phone 828-299-3663
Fax 828-299-3664
Email mannafb@secondharvest.org

www.secondharvest.org

FRANKLIN BRANCH
509 Depot Street
Franklin, NC 28734
Phone 828-369-2550
Fax  828-369-7773

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