Childhood Hunger: How You Can Join Me, Con Agra and Mark Saling from Glee in the Fight

September 1, 2011 by 2 Comments

This past weekend, I went home.

And by home, I don’t mean St. Louis.  Right…. St. Louis is where I LIVE, but it isn’t where I’m FROM.

I’m from Los Angeles.  And LA will ALWAYS feel like home to me.  Even when I’m not playing with friends and visiting the beach.

Even when the reason I’m visiting is because of a need in the city, so intense, it makes my heart hurt.

More than 700 thousand kids in the LA area are hungry.  Some don’t know where they will find their next meal.  SOme live, day-in and day-out with that aching in their belly, the headache that starts when you just don’t have enough to eat.

I’m just one person.  But me + a whole lot of fantastic people…. like Mark Saling from Glee (yes! PUCK!) and the amazing team behind the Con Agra Foods Foundation and Feeding America are parterning to End Childhood Hunger. This is my third time joining this effort…. and this time?  We’re getting the schools on board through Schools Fight Hunger.

If you would like to register your school with Schools Fight Hunger, it is easy – visit their website or head to ChildHungerEndsHere.  A school food drive or collecting UPC labels from participating Con Agra Foods seems like such a small thing, but it can make such a big difference.

Let me know if you register your school!

 

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Barbara-Collins/1596499763 Barbara Collins

    This is another extraordinary move by you Danielle.  There is another group (not government but an individual) that is trying to help end childhood obesity in America through our schools.  If we could only marry the two ideas of ending hunger and ending the addiction this country has to sugar as we all have been duped by the food industries, then I think our children would be better off.  It is people like you who have influence that can make a difference.  It just takes one of us to put a thousand to flight.  Great job my friend.
    love,
    madre†
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  • Danielle Smith

    Barbara – thank you so very much – this is easily one of the causes I am most passionate about…. It amazes me to think so many kids are hungry, and are so easily overlooked.  I appreciate your kind heart.