Thank you for your overwhelming support! We have sold out the viewing of "A Place at the Table". You may still make a donation to Send Hunger Packing, but all seats for the film are taken.
Send Hunger Packing Princeton presents the viewing of "A Place at the Table" with panel discussion featuring the co-director Lori Silverbush to follow
Many children in our community live with food insecurity, not knowing if the next meal can be provided or if there is a nutritional snack available. This hits children especially hard on weekends when they are not in school to receive free or reduced priced breakfasts or lunches. The Princeton Human Services Commission has joined with Mercer Street Friends to send hunger packing by providing non-perishable foods to these children every Friday throughout the school year. This will allow them to have much need nutrition on the weekends. It costs $160 to provide one child with food for the weekend during the school year. Your contribution to this viewing of "A Place at the Table" will put us one step closer to ending hunger insecurity in our community.
About The Film ( taken from www.magpictures.com)
50 million people in the U.S.-one in four children-don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people who are struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie, a Colorado fifth-grader who often has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a Mississippi second-grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford.
Their stories are interwoven with insights from experts including sociologist Janet Poppendieck, author Raj Patel and nutrition policy leader Marion Nestle; ordinary citizens like Pastor Bob Wilson and teachers Leslie Nichols and Odessa Cherry; and activists such as Witness to Hunger’s Mariana Chilton, Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio and Oscar®-winning actor Jeff Bridges.
Ultimately, A Place at the Table shows us how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides-as they have in the past-that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all.
http://www.magpictures.com/aplaceatthetable/
