15 Minutes. 750 Calories. 500 low-income children, 4 days a week.
July 9, 2013 12:47 PM Subscribe
In rural Tennessee, a new way to help hungry children: A bus turned bread truck. Accompanying photo gallery.
"Launched last year with a $50,000 grant from the ConAgra Foods Foundation awarded through the national Feeding America food bank network, the program was reinforced this year with a second $20,000 grant from ConAgra."
From the final slide in the gallery (linked above):
"Launched last year with a $50,000 grant from the ConAgra Foods Foundation awarded through the national Feeding America food bank network, the program was reinforced this year with a second $20,000 grant from ConAgra."
From the final slide in the gallery (linked above):
"The areas around Greeneville, Tenn., were once the hub of tobacco farming. As tobacco farming decreased dramatically, downtown Greeneville has seen the closure of many businesses... Now most of the tobacco warehouses that were situated in Greeneville sit idle. This decline of the industry, and the closure of many fabric and manufacturing plants in the area have contributed to the rise in poverty rates in eastern Tennessee."
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