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TACKLING CHILDHOOD HUNGER IN AMERICA ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME
Date and Time
Saturday Sep 27, 2014
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDTLocation
Durham Evangelical Church, 114 Dover Road (Route 108), Durham, NH
Fees/Admission
FREE
Website
TACKLING CHILDHOOD HUNGER IN AMERICA ...Description
The Seacoast Memorial Lecture Series is proud to present Claire V. Bloom, founder and Executive Director of the "End 68 Hours of Hunger" program, discussing childhood hunger in America and New England, and how her organization is working to wipe it out. The event is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome. Please join us on Saturday, September 27, 2014, 1:30 pm, at the Durham Evangelical Church, 114 Dover Road (Route 108), Durham, NH, for an informative and inspiring presentation. Childhood hunger, a national problem, is on the increase in New England. When children receive insufficient food on a regular basis, it affects them both physically and psychologically. "End 68 Hours of Hunger" is a private, volunteer, not-for-profit effort to end childhood hunger in America, one school at a time, by confronting the 68 hours of hunger that some children experience between the free lunch they get in school on Friday and the free breakfast they get in school on Monday. Through local volunteer programs that liaise with local schools, "End 68 Hours of Hunger" provides bags of food to these children to take home on the weekend. The program currently serves over 30 communities in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and California. Claire V. Bloom has degrees in sociology and educational leadership. After a career in the U.S. Navy, including a stint as the first female second-in-command of the USS Constitution, she founded "End 68 Hours of Hunger" in 2011 and serves as its volunteer Executive Director. Starting in Dover, New Hampshire, where Ms. Bloom learned about the problem from a teacher friend, the award-winning program has been expanding at an amazing rate. Ms. Bloom is the author of End 68 Hours of Hunger: Ending Childhood Hunger in America, One School at a Time. The Seacoast Memorial Lecture Series is an affiliate of the Active Retirement Association. The ARA is supported by annual dues from its 300+ members who represent 35 towns and cities in southern Maine and New Hampshire. For additional information, visit the ARA website at www.unh.edu/ara or contact Membership Director Carol Caldwell at 603-343-1004.
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