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Life under the bridge: Homeless and mentally ill in SLO County | The Tribune & SanLuisObispo.com

Marilyn’s belongings — multiple blankets, bags of clothing and sleeping bags given to her by those meaning well — surrounded her. “I’m psychologically attached to this stuff,” she said.

Although Marilyn may be a member of our community’s homeless population, she isn’t necessarily dispossessed. While a bad knee, an ulcer and asthma — as well as her attachment to her things — had kept her under the bridge morning, noon and night, she had a network of friends who had been bringing her buttered toast and sweet rolls in the morning and Chef Boyardee in the evenings.

On this particular summer morning, the air had a faint smell of urine, and a rat brazenly scampered near Tribune photographer David Middlecamp’s shoes, staring him down from a bridge abutment.

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Food Bank For New York City: Welcome to the Virtual Food Drive!

Food Bank For New York City: Welcome to the Virtual Food Drive!

Your donation goes further on the Virtual Food Drive! Thanks to the Food Bank’s wholesale purchasing power and efficient distribution model, a gift made here provides more food than through a traditional food drive — doubling or even tripling the amount of food your dollar can provide.

Get Started Today!

1. Pick a campaign
2. Personalize your Virtual Food Drive with a photo or graphic and your personal message
3. Invite friends, family and coworkers to come shopping and help you meet your fundraising goal!

Somalia Famine Relief Progress Slow in Race to Save Millions - ABC News

While the world's attention this week has been focused on the global economic impact of the U.S. debt ceiling deal, credit downgrade and subsequent market woes, the drought crisis in the Horn of Africa continues to deteriorate.

Children in are dying at an alarming rate.

The United States estimates that as many as 29,000 Somali children died just last month.

via abcnews.go.com

Somali children die en route to refugee camp | The Tribune & SanLuisObispo.com

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Panera Bread CEO Says Pay What You Can | Food Freedom

By Emily DrewMatter Network

One in six Americans live in “food insecure” homes. This means one in six Americans is seriously hungry, likely under-nourished or malnourished and doesn’t know when he/she will have their next meal.

When Panera Bread Founder and CEO Ronald Shaich learned this, he thought about how Panera Bread opens two restaurants every week, employs 60,000 people, and he knew Panera’s resources could have impact on America’s hunger problem. He personally set out to help, pitched his board (with a lot of respect and credibility under his belt), created a foundation and the result is a new kind of chain restaurant: pay-what-you-can Paneras.

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Check out this article about homelessness and social media:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/28/homeless.twitter.help/

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Welcome to Consortium for Street Children

The International Day for Street Children: Louder Together is launched on 12th April, a new campaign to give a louder voice to the millions of street children all around the world so their rights cannot be ignored. Governments need to listen. We want to help make this happen. We must give street children a voice. Together we are louder and have more impact so we are asking everyone to Raise your Voices for Street Children.

The International Day is being celebrated across the globe: by street children in Morocco, Uganda, Ethiopia, Guatemala and India; school children in the UK; students in Ireland; the Consortium for Street Children and its 60 members in over 130 countries; Aviva in the 28 countries in which it operates; and politicians in Tanzania and the UK.

All countries have signed and ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (other than the USA and Somalia) and have a legal obligation to work towards ensuring that all children’s rights are integrated into national law. The Convention sets out every child’s right to protection, participation, provision and prevention from harm. It is universally recognised that all children should have these rights realised; however many government policies and practices still do not include street children.

via www.streetchildren.org.uk

End Childhood Hunger - Follow the Blog

Follow the End Childhood Hunger blog - http://endchildhungerblog.org/ - to keep up on statistics and solutions to end hunger for kids in our lifetime.  Alarming new post on the new Census data about hunger here.

get your january 2011 I skipped a meal badge #twitterforfood

Thanks for joining in #twitterforfood and skipping a meal to donate the savings to fund your local food bank yesterday! 

For those that joined in, here's your January "i skipped a meal" badge for your website or blog:

As usual, you can just copy this graphic or you can use this code to embed the graphic with a link into your website!

<a href="http://www.twitterforfood.com"><img src="http://enklings.typepad.com/iskippedameal0111.jpg"/></a>

Join us each month in 2011 to help fund food banks and hunger relief organizations all year long. Just because the holidays are gone, it doesn't mean hunger is gone!

Twitterforfood.com and @hungernomore are available all month to highlight what food banks are doing or events that are happening. Email me at: twitterforfood@gmail.com.

simply,

Tim

Annual Nutrition Conference 2011 - School Nutrition Association

Are you heading to Nashville for the Annual Nutrition Conference put on by the School Nutrition Association?

Check it out here!

simply,

Tim