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Spectacular Magazine Community Food Distribution
September 28, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Free
Spectacular Magazine, your community-focused resource, will host a community food giveaway in partnership with Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, Lisa Greene & Marketing With A Twist, and St. Joseph AME Church.
Free – First Come, First Served
No ID required
Did you know?
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Almost 604,000 North Carolina households don’t have enough to eat.
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North Carolina is the 10th hungriest state in the nation.
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Almost 1 in 5 children in North Carolina faces hunger on a regular basis (24.6%).
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Over 15% of our seven-county service area faces food insecurity. That’s over a quarter of a million people.
North Carolina is the 10th Hungriest State in the U.S.
Low Food Security: Homes that often must make tough choices about the amount and quality of food they are able to provide their families.
Very Low Food Security: Homes that often miss meals.
According to the USDA, in the past year, more than 90% of these families worried that food would run out; nearly 80% could not afford a balanced meal, and individuals in 96% of homes with very low food security skipped meals in order to make food last longer.