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It breaks my heart that a child, tonight might be going to bed hungry.  Not only are generic propecia website families having a hard time finding the money to purchase quality, healthy foods for generic propecia website their families because of job loss or lack of sufficient income, but finding a generic propecia website grocery store in downtown Detroit, with quality food and fresh fruits and vegetables is nearly impossible.

Did you generic propecia website know that Feeding America in Michigan provides emergency food to 1,173,700 different people annually?

Children are suffering.  38% of the generic propecia website household members that are receiving food in Michigan are children under 18 years old and generic propecia website 9% are children 0-5 years old. 34% of those households have one parent that is working and 75% have incomes below the federal poverty level.

When times are generic propecia website tough, making choices between food and utilities can become challenging

Can you generic propecia website imagine having to choose between keeping the heat on or feeding your generic propecia website family?  Both are needed to keep your family healthy, but 42% of Feeding America clients in Michigan have generic propecia website reported that they have had to choose between food and utilities.  They’ve also had to choose between food and medicine/medical care, food and gas/transportation and food and rent/mortgage.

The government is also helping out

58% of Feeding America clients are receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and 60 % participate in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for generic propecia website Women, Infants and Children (WIC).

Your assistance is needed

Many programs rely entirely on volunteers and generic propecia website with 2.6 million households, with children under 18 have very low food security.  How sad to generic propecia website know a child somewhere, maybe next door, might be hungry and generic propecia website not sure if their parents will have enough money to buy some groceries because rent was all they had generic propecia website enough for that month.

How you can help?

Conagra Foods and generic propecia website Feeding America have teamed up to end child hunger in a  Child Hunger Ends Here campaign.  They are generic propecia website giving you the tools to do your part by having a generic propecia website bake sale, neighborhood rummage sale or anything you can come up with to generic propecia website raise money with your neighbors, friends, schoolmates, ect.  Anyone can participate and contribute.

Detroit Mommies will be generic propecia website at The Village of Rochester Hills on April 11 during the generic propecia website Recycle 411 event from 12pm-3pm selling popcorn to raise money for Feeding America.  We are generic propecia website giving about 4-5 hours of our time to help ease some stress in a generic propecia website child’s life, so they might stop worrying about food and generic propecia website more about how they are going to get an A on their math test.

Disclosure:  Detroit Mommies was chosen to generic propecia website participate in the Child Hunger Ends Here campaign and given a generic propecia website stipend for participation. The opinions expressed in this generic propecia website post are mine and mine alone and are not influenced in any way by anyone.

*Statistics found in this post came from the Hunger in Michigan 2010 report

About: Courtney Velasquez

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Courtney is the ultimate multitasking mom! She runs two blogs Miami Mommies and Detroit Mommies , is generic propecia website the Community Director for Collective Bias and has 3 girls under 8 years old. Courtney is the founder of Detroit Mommies. You can follow her on Twitter @courtneymiami.

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