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Hidden Hunger Next Door
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Families in the Ozarks face difficult choices between buying food and paying rent
One missed paycheck or one medical bill. That’s all it takes for a family in the Ozarks to face difficult choices between buying food and paying rent. That’s why there are organizations working hard in southwest Missouri to make sure no one goes hungry when they’re facing difficult times.
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Sense of Community
Hidden Hunger Next Door
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One missed paycheck or one medical bill. That’s all it takes for a family in the Ozarks to face difficult choices between buying food and paying rent. That’s why there are organizations working hard in southwest Missouri to make sure no one goes hungry when they’re facing difficult times.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] JORDAN BROWNING: Kinda the ballpark we're looking at for our service area is about one in five kids and one in six adults facing hunger.
I think what gets missed with that food insecurity is it may not look like what most people imagine.
So a lot of the folks we're serving, they have jobs.
They have homes.
They're paying rent.
Usually, they maybe have one or two kids in the household.
They have a high school education.
They just don't have enough to make it towards the end of the month.
And that's where we're coming in, to make sure that they can have food to supply to their families while they're trying to get back on their feet.
NATALIE BARBIERI: A lot of people think of food insecurity as just not having access to food, period.
Like enough food.
But no, food insecurity is not having enough access to nutritious food on a regular basis.
Like, you may have all the ramen you want to eat in the world, but that doesn't supply your body with everything that it needs.
JORDAN BROWNING: A lot of the misperceptions, I think, that folks have for those struggling with food insecurity is that they're somehow taking benefits from someone else or folks choose to be in this situation, which are just fundamentally not true.
And a lot of the folks really don't need assistance for that long.
I mean, example with the SNAP program.
Most people are only on that program for nine months or less.
And I think that's a really good communication that folks are using this as a temporary assistance to get back on their feet.
What we see is people coming in and out of this situation, depending on where they are at in their life.
NANDA NUNNELLY: Everyone deserves to eat.
And we're all so close to being in that place.
We're one paycheck, one sickness, one car issue away from having to decide between, am I going to feed myself and my children, or am I going to do this other thing, know?
JORDAN BROWNING: So often, we see folks that get into such dire straits before they ask for assistance.
And I think what we've seen time and time again is that our community is so very, very generous and so willing to help out their neighbors.
And I don't feel like that's seen enough, that people really do care about each other here in the southwest Missouri.
And unfortunately, the loudest voices tend to be those that are pushing against people that are trying to get help and trying to get back on their feet.
Preview | 30s | Ozarks nonprofits strive to make sure no one goes hungry (30s)
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