Today I covered hunger on the home front. The numbers are startling and painful. One in seven Utah kids is in danger of not having enough to eat. 63-thousand people eat dinner at a soup kitchen every day.
The Utah Food Bank continues to fight an uphill battle in a down economy. The need for food assistance has grown 40-percent in the past two years. This summer has brought help from the community, which has rallied again to help the hungry. The situation is not as desperate as it was at the beginning of the summer, but inventory still remains low. The Food Bank inventory is down forty percent.
I spoke with Ginette Bott, Chief Marketing Director at the Utah Food Bank, and I asked her if this is a crisis. She said the real crisis comes when parents arrive at a food pantry hoping to bring home food for their families only to find there isn’t any. That, she said, is truly a crisis.
