A senior citizen stops me outside a restaurant and begged me to help her. She is scared and spoke timidly asking for food. "Please don't call the cops on me", she pleaded. Hungry and alone in life, her story is unknown, but no one should be hungry! Moms Against Hunger gives her aid... right here in our home town.
As of 2009, there were almost 1 million seniors in the U.S. who go hungry because they cannot afford to buy food. Another 5 million seniors in the U.S. faced the threat of hunger. In one of the world's richest nations, no older American should be going hungry. However instead, in recent years, hunger rates have more than doubled for poor seniors in the country, and it is likely to get worse as the older population is the fastest growing cohort of the U.S. population. You can get more statistics on Senior Hunger from a pioneering study on the topic that we helped support.
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