Food insecurity, a lack of sufficient access to adequate quality food, is a crucial issue in the United States, impacting a staggering 18 million households in 2023. Food scarcity significantly impacts post-secondary students – 3.9 million undergraduates and more than 400,000 graduate students experience food insecurity.
During a recent in-person meeting in Orlando, Florida, the Risepoint senior leadership team dedicated time to fighting hunger in support of the Rise Against Hunger initiative.
Who is Rise Against Hunger?
The Rise Against Hunger mission is to end world hunger by empowering communities that are underresourced. The organization targets communities designated as “serious” or higher on the Global Hunger Index and partners with domestic and international hunger relief organizations to provide meals. The organization prioritizes nutritional support and skills training to ensure that these communities can increase food security and avoid crises in the long-term.
On the opening evening of our Senior Leadership meeting, the Risepoint team packed 10,000 meals! It’s exciting to meet in-person as a team and even more fulfilling when we’re able to directly help those in need as a group.
Who are our meals helping?
Rise Against Hunger shared the following information with us about where our meals went.
Haiti, a small island nation located in the Caribbean, was the world’s first Black-led republic and the first independent Caribbean state. The country faces political, economic, and social instability, as well as vulnerability to natural disasters, having suffered serious devastation from massive earthquakes and hurricanes in the past decade. These unique circustances create complex and ever-changing threats to food secudrity and public health in the country. The Global Health Index, which accesses food insecurity based on indicators that measure undernourishment and undernutrition, categorizes Haiti as having a “serious” level of hunger.
Thank you, Rise Against Hunger, for the opportunity to support the fight against world hunger.
Learn more about how you can get involved with Rise Against Hunger at an in-person facility or even virtually.
