SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION
supporting Broward County Food Banks and
Social Service Feeding Programs to ensure
NO EMPTY PLATES
Your financial or in-kind donations support more than 70 agencies represented by South Florida Hunger Coalition. Contact us at 954.714.6923 or sgruber@southfloridahungercoalition.org
South Florida Hunger Coalition supports a network of food assistance, emergency and disaster response agencies, and children and senior programs throughout Broward County. If you are an individual, or know an individual in need of food, please visit one of our local partner agencies.


call the Broward County2-1-1 hotline, by simply dialing 2-1-1. Assistance is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and you will be directed to the nearest emergency food or social service agency in your area.
To view a listing of Food Stamp (SNAP) Access Centers in your community,
- Malnutrition can severely affect a child's intellectual development. Malnourished children often have stunted growth and score significantly lower on math and language achievement tests than do well-nourished children.
- Lack of dietary diversity and essential minerals and vitamins also contributes to increased child and adult mortality. Vitamin A deficiency impairs the immune system, increasing the annual death toll from measles and other diseases by an estimated 1.3 million-2.5 million children.
- Six million children under the age of 5 die every year as a result of hunger.
- According to the most recent figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 13.3 million American children were food insecure in 2003; of these, 420,000 lived in households where someone had to go hungry.
- Overall, 36.3 million Americans experienced food insecurity in 2003, 1.4 million more than in 2002, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.



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