Survey on Classroom Hunger

(Hello everyone, Greg here.  This week I'd like to feature a guest post by Stephanie Keller from the nonprofit group Share Our Strength.  The organization is asking teachers who have experienced child hunger in their classrooms to fill out a short survey to help Share Our Strength document and raise awareness about hunger in the classroom.  If you're a teacher, please fill out the survey (link below).  If you have teacher friends or colleagues, please forward this to them.  Thanks in advance for all that you do!)

Every day, in classrooms across America, teachers witness the devastating impacts of hunger on the children they serve - problems that we might see as behavioral, teachers know are often the result of children not eating breakfast that morning or dinner the night before.  We hear from teachers across the country that more children come to school hungry on Monday morning than any other day of the week, because they didn't eat enough over the weekend.

This summer, Share Our Strength is talking with teachers across the country about child hunger in their classrooms, and we need your help.  Through a project called Hunger in America's Classrooms: Share Our Strength's Teacher Report, we hope to raise awareness about child hunger in America and build a movement of Americans dedicated to ending it.

More than 12.4 million-one in six-children in America are at risk of hunger. These children will endure lifelong consequences as a result of having limited access to nutritious foods.  In fact, they're more likely to suffer poorer health, fatigue, hospitalizations, behavioral difficulties and impaired performance at school.  That's why Share Our Strength finds childhood hunger where it hides and works hard to end it.

Share Our Strength is the leading national organization working to make sure no child in America grows up hungry.  To date, Share Our Strength has raised over $245 million and provided support for more than 1,000 nonprofits working to end hunger.  Our founders, Billy and Debbie Shore, started the organization with the belief that 'Poverty is complex; feeding a child is not. Everyone has a strength and everyone has something to share. Chefs, companies, volunteers and everyday Americans who care.'

So, today we are asking you to share your strength's with us.  If you are a teacher who has experienced child hunger in your classroom, tell us about it by taking this brief online survey: www.strength.org/teachers.  And if you know a teacher or teachers who would willing to help us tell this important story, please forward this on to them.

Thanks so much for your help.  Together we will end childhood hunger in America!

To learn more about Share Our Strength and our work to end childhood hunger in America, please visit www.strength.org

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