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Mobile food pantries serving thousands in hard hit areas

January 19, 2012
Jackie Valley

A truck brimming with food - 12,752 pounds worth - rolled up to Grace Immanuel Baptist Church on Bartlett Avenue on Friday afternoon as a growing crowd eagerly eyed its contents.

A dozen volunteers quickly unloaded the food pyramid-worthy assortment of meats, produce, dairy and snack items, careful to avoid the children zipping up and down the pavement.

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Hunger Facts

Imagine your child’s classroom: thirty children, and fifteen of them are hungry.

55% of children in the Clark County School District are enrolled in free and reduced-price meal programs based on their family income. That’s over 170,000 kids facing hunger at home and coming to school unprepared to learn.

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