For more than 30 years, Ben has been helping organizations raise awareness and inspire action by creating compelling narratives. And since 2018, Ben has been the Maryland Food Bank’s Staff Writer, elevating the voices of food-insecure neighbors to further the Maryland Food Bank’s mission of feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more Marylanders.
At 17 colleges and universities statewide, innovative and thoughtful programming at Higher Education pantries is helping students focus on academics instead of wondering where their next meal might come from.
College students are an often overlooked, but surprisingly large demographic of the people who experience food insecurity in Maryland. Recent studies explore some of the reasons hunger touches more than 116,000 higher education students statewide, and just how devastating its effect can be.
Located in Salisbury, where about 20% of the city’s population of 33,000 is Haitian, Rebirth has been helping restore dignity and foster social integration through food, basic education, information, social services, communication, and outreach to neighbors in need since 2002.
FoodWorks gave Bria Evans a fresh start after she lost her job in physical therapy, and now she is literally giving others the same opportunity through her own 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
As the state’s leading hunger resource, it is our responsibility to balance the immediate issues that hunger presents to individuals, with the need to keep an eye on trends in the state overall, so we continue to be the resource our neighbors need us to be.
Check out the latest local and national news about the Maryland Food Bank and how we’re addressing hunger in our communities.
