2010 Feeding America Hunger Study
2010 Feeding America Hunger Study
4/7/2010
Hunger Study Executive Summary and Comprehensive Reports
In recent months there have been many stories of hungry people and anecdotal evidence in the media of the increasing problem of hunger. While individual stories inform our understanding of the daily lives of a hungry person, the recent nationwide hunger study sponsored by Feeding America (FA) (formerly America’s Second Harvest), the nation’s largest organization of emergency food providers offers the most comprehensive study of hunger across the nation, individual states, and our local communities. The 2010 Feeding America Hunger Study surveys the emergency food programs whose primary purpose is to feed to people in a hunger crisis and the clients who receive food from those pantries, kitchens and shelters.
The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 61,000 clients served by the Feeding America national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. The national report can be found at www.feedingamerica.org.
INDIANA
The Feeding America Hunger Study is executed every four years. This is the first one in which all Feeding America member food banks in Indiana have participated and therefore the first time there has been a state-wide Indiana report.
Gleaners Food Bank provides food assistance to 33,600 different clients each week and 160,900 different clients each year. Each week over 25,000 clients have limited or uncertain availability to nutritionally adequate and safe food. In the Gleaners service area, in over 11,000 households, household members reduce portions or skip meals due to lack of resources to acquire food. 43% of emergency food assistance recipients are children and 7% of recipients are over 65.
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana's Executive Summary encapsulates the results from clients and charities served by the food bank.