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Your belly is touching your back
The post title is something that I have heard may times and said a couple times myself. It refers to the fact that you are so hungry or haven't eaten in such a long time that it feel like your stomach is touching your back. I went to school at Xavier University in Louisiana. One summer I decided to stay and take a class during summer school. I figured I would take a class during the day and try and find a job so I could sustain myself. Well I was able to take the class but a job wasn't so forth coming. Lucky for me I still had some money but it wasn't really enough for me to eat daily. But being resourceful I figured some how I would make it work. The only way I was able to make it work was to eat one jelly dounut each day. Every day just before class I would go and get my jelly dounut. As I walked back I would eat it as slowly as possible. I guess if I did that it would last longer. LOL This went on for about three weeks, until I ran into a friend of mine. He was the director of a community center that served breakfast and lunch to the children during the summer. As we talked this one day I told him what I was doing. The next day when I saw him he gave me some of the left over lunches from the day. This went on for the rest of the summer. So I would eat my one jelly dounut till I would get my left over lunch in the evening.
I have learned that my experience is not to different that what happens in some rural parts of Maryland daily. I have found that for two of the poorest counties in Maryland the people either come up with resourceful ways to feed their family or they rely on government assistance. For some when they can not purchase food they will supplement what they can purchase by either farming small plots of land or by hunting. For those who qualify they will get public assistance in the form of food stamp or are in the Women Infant and Children (WIC) program. WIC is a program that subsidizes your food purchase by giving your money in the form of a check to purchase food from an approved list. The checks that they give can only be used at a grocery store. Any food that a family want to purchase that is not on the list they will have to use what little money they have. But there are people who can't hunt or farm, nor qualify for food stamps or WIC. What I have found it these people simply go hungry or don't pay a bill so that they could at least feed their children. What I have also found is that the people effected span the spectrum. They are black and white, young and old, highly educated or hardly educated. In what some might consider one of the best countries in the world, we do have food security issues. It not to the same extent as Sub Saharan Africa, but a hungry belly knows no border. So I challenge the other agents to lets try and do more with respect to food security not to win this competition but to help someone win the game of life.
You can click on this link to read the full report. http://extension.umd.edu/family/ruralfamilies/foodsecurity/index.cfm
I have learned that my experience is not to different that what happens in some rural parts of Maryland daily. I have found that for two of the poorest counties in Maryland the people either come up with resourceful ways to feed their family or they rely on government assistance. For some when they can not purchase food they will supplement what they can purchase by either farming small plots of land or by hunting. For those who qualify they will get public assistance in the form of food stamp or are in the Women Infant and Children (WIC) program. WIC is a program that subsidizes your food purchase by giving your money in the form of a check to purchase food from an approved list. The checks that they give can only be used at a grocery store. Any food that a family want to purchase that is not on the list they will have to use what little money they have. But there are people who can't hunt or farm, nor qualify for food stamps or WIC. What I have found it these people simply go hungry or don't pay a bill so that they could at least feed their children. What I have also found is that the people effected span the spectrum. They are black and white, young and old, highly educated or hardly educated. In what some might consider one of the best countries in the world, we do have food security issues. It not to the same extent as Sub Saharan Africa, but a hungry belly knows no border. So I challenge the other agents to lets try and do more with respect to food security not to win this competition but to help someone win the game of life.
You can click on this link to read the full report. http://extension.umd.edu/family/ruralfamilies/foodsecurity/index.cfm
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