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\n BATTLE CREEK, Mich.<\/span>, Nov. 12, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Roughly 300 million children have been without school meals and are at risk of hunger since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Food banks are working to prevent the health crisis from becoming a hunger crisis, but their resources can only go so far. Lisa Moon<\/span>, CEO of The Global FoodBanking Network and Stephanie Slingerland<\/span>, Kellogg Company Sr. Director of Philanthropy and Social Impact share how school-based feeding programs can help fill that feeding gap.<\/p>\n

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\n <\/b>By:\u00a0Lisa Moon, CEO of The Global FoodBanking Network and Stephanie Slingerland<\/span>, Kellogg Company Sr. Director of Philanthropy and Social Impact<\/p>\n

The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) recently release Healthy Nations Start with Healthy Children \u2013 A View from the Field<\/a><\/i>1<\/sup><\/i>. Commissioned in 2019, the study evaluated just how much GFN’s member food banks help their communities. According to the study, food banks in 30 countries serve an estimated 3.49 million school-age children. Even before COVID, an estimated 73 million vulnerable children were not being reached with food at school. That number has no doubt risen \u2013 and will continue to rise without urgent action by government, the private sector, and civil society.<\/p>\n

Without intervention, childhood hunger can have devastating effects, like damaging a child’s physical and cognitive development with consequences that may last a lifetime if not addressed. This not only threatens a child’s future, but also harms families, communities, and nations’ economic growth. The study’s results prove that school-based feeding programs are among the most cost-effective means of addressing child hunger. <\/p>\n

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\n <\/b>Kellogg has been a founding partner of GFN, which has a shared mission of helping to end childhood hunger. GFN food banks serve as a lifeline for children. The food banks provide school breakfasts, school lunches, backpacks or weekend take-home rations, summer or holiday food rations, and nutrition monitoring and education.\u00a0 More programs like these are essential to avoid an even greater hunger crisis. We must take action now in two main ways:<\/p>\n