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Denise Holland details information in the Feeding America 2010 Hunger in America hunger study before a crowd of reporters, elected representatives and citizens at the joint hunger forum press conference.
Harvest Hope Coordinates Joint Hunger Forum
with Neighboring Food Banks
Harvest Hope Food Bank hosted a joint hunger forum press conference on Friday, February 5th in cooperation with Golden Harvest Food Bank and the Lowcountry Food Bank to release new data gathered in the Feeding America Hunger in America 2010 hunger study. South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson thanked Harvest Hope CEO Denise Holland, Lowcountry Food Bank Director Jermaine Husser and Golden Harvest Associate Director Barry J. Forde for their hard work and dedication to provide emergency food to our state's growing number of suffering families. Wilson talked about the specific data in the report before turning the podium over to the individual food bank representatives who went on to discuss significant findings in the 2010 hunger study detailing the different economic and social forces compelling increasing numbers of people to turn to food banks for help.
Golden Harvest Food Bank Associate Director Barry J. Forde and Lowcountry Food Bank Director Jermaine Husser.
Acknowledging the importance of the 2010 Hunger in America hunger study, other South Carolina elected officials sent representatives to attend the hunger forum and receive information from the three food banks summarizing localized data from their individual hunger studies.  Shown attending the Hunger Forum press conference are:
Sara Snell from Lindsay Graham's office.
Kati Jennings from Senator Jim DeMint's office.
Katharine Wade from Congressman Gresham Barrett's office.
Al Dozier with the Free-Times
Sydney Cummins with WLTX-TV.
SC Congressman Joe Wilson.
Judit Truncos with The Columbia City Paper.
Beau Mcleod from Congressman Joe Wilson's office.
Brandy Cummings with WIS-TV.
Bertram Rantin with The State.
Harvest Hope would also like to thank Dalton Tresvant for attending to represent Congressman James E. Cyburn's office.
Congressman Joe Wilson discusses the Hunger in America numbers with Golden Harvest Food Bank Associate Director Barry J. Forde and Harvest Hope CEO Denise Holland.
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Data from the Feeding America 2010
Hunger in America hunger study provides compelling and graphic information
about hunger in South Carolina, and presents a detailed picture of who our
clients are, where they live and the economic and social conditions that force
them to make the difficult decision to turn to us for emergency food. Harvest Hope Food Bank would like to thank South Carolina Healthy Connections Choices for funding the local study.
Who Is In Need
Harvest Hope Food Bank clients come from a variety of backgrounds. When looking at the statistics we find that only 11% of our clients are homeless. Most of our clients are coming to us during a difficult time period in their lives. For some this is something that is short lived but for others that are elderly or disabled this period may last for years and possibly the rest of their life.
General Household Demographics
* Households with children younger than 18 34.8%
* Households with members 65 or older 22.8%
* Households with grandchildren 11.2%
* Households with single parents with
children younger than 18 46.1%
Client's Monthly
Household Income
None 15%
$1-$499 10%
$500-$999 34%
$1,000-$1,499 23%
$1,500-$1,999 4%
$2,000-$2,499 2%
$2,500-$2,999 1%
$3,000 or more 3%
Unknown 8%
* In 2008, Harvest Hope's children's feeding programs fed an average of 567 children per month in our service area.
* In 2009, Harvest Hope's children's feeding programs fed an average of 874 children per month in our service area,an increase of 54.23%.
For more information reguarding the 2010 Hunger In America Study click here.
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