Latest / Between the Stripes / Episode 3: Fighting hunger ❤️🥫 in our community
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- Roar Nation: Welcome to Between the Stripes. A podcast from Roar Nation student media at Atkinson Elementary in Newnan, Georgia. I'm Eli my name's Paisley Hi, my name's Annalee Hi, my name is Jessis. My name is Miss Allen. I'm Miss Dobbin. we are both teachers at Atkinson Elementary School. here today to talk about something very important in our community. our school is collecting cans for the Canathon, which is sponsored by Noon and Junior Service League to collect cans and non perishable food items for our food pantry in our community. So we're gonna discuss how hunger and food insecurity affects our community. All right, so our first question is what is it like to feel hungry? Well my body feels sometimes tired when I'm hungry. I feel grumpy whenever I'm hungry. I'm very grouchy and could potentially be angry when I'm hungry. Do you think that it would affect your schoolwork or your job if you were hungry every day for a long time? Well yeah, it could because it can really actually unfocus you from whatever you're doing. I believe that it affects you very deeply because it can make it harder for you to focus and work on something like an important task. What things could happen to cause families in our community to not have enough food? Families may not have enough food due to low paying jobs or not having a job. Food is expensive. The less families get paid, the more their income goes towards buying food. How many families in our community deal with hunger? According to no kidhungry dot org, about sixteen percent. You can multiply 0.16 by the number of households in your community and find out. Do you think people are embarrassed to say that they don't have enough food or money to buy it? Yes, I think kids could be embarrassed about saying their families don't have enough money to buy food or something. It could be really hard for their family and it's kind of embarrassing to say it out loud. Yes, I think adults would be embarrassed to say that they can't provide enough food for their family. Do you think they should be embarrassed to say they need help? I don't think they should be embarrassed about it because they are in a situation that they can't help. No, it isn't their fault. How does our community help people with food insecurity? Food insecurity is when people are not sure where and how they're gonna get meals for their families. We have local charities bridging the gap in Cabita Food Pantry. Students can get free and reduced meals at school. We hand out free summer lunches Government assistance called Snap and Wick. Backpack buddies give sacks of food to students to take home. Newnan Junior Surfacley holds a canathon to stock the community food pantry every November. What is a food pantry? Food pantry is a place where families can get free groceries when they need help putting food on the table. It's one way our community takes care of one another, making sure our neighbors have enough to eat. What is our school doing to help? Well at our school we are having a competition between the four houses Al Turismo, River, Amastad or Izabindi to see who will bring the most money or food items for the Coweta community food pantry. It's part of the Canathon Wow, what a great way to take care of our neighbors and friends. So how do we help out and donate? Non-perishable food such as canned and boxed goods can be brought to school. that means the food doesn't have to be refrigerated and it will last a while on the pantry shelf. Money can also be donated. That would be amazing if people who didn't live here could donate text the word Canathon to seven one seven seven seven. You can select our school, which is Atkinson, when you donate online. Thank you for joining us. If you want to know more about the canathon in Coweta County, head to NJSLserves.org. And if you want to know more about hunger and food insecurity, head to no kidhungry.org. or every meal dot org. if there's something you've always wanted to know someone you think we should interview a story you think we should tell let Rory should know Because sometimes the best stories aren't the ones in the announcements. They're the ones happening. But bring the stripes Thank you for listening. See you next time