National Survey Reveals Food Donations Drop In The Summer (NAPSA)—More than 65 percent of emergency food providers in the United States experience the lowest donation levels during the summer months, according to a recent national survey. The survey, sponsored by leading antihunger organization Share Our Strength and Tyson Foods, Inc., also reveals that summeris the time when many emergency food providers receive the most demand from their clients. This inereased demand is often due to families who rely on meal programs for kids throughout the school year. The survey reports that 76 percent of the responding food providers chose meat and poultry protein as the food products they would like to have donated most. Unfortunately, 64 percent of the respondents also report that meat and poultry are donated the least. “More than 31 million Americans are at risk of hunger,” said Bill Shore, founder and executive director of Share Our Strength. “That’s whyit’s so important for Tyson and other companies to help fill the summervoid not covered by school lunch programs by increasing the availability of chicken at food banks across the country.” To help in the fight against hunger, Share Our Strength and Tyson Foods have joined together in a three-year partnership that continues to have a real impact. Over the past year, they have provided more than 1 million meals per month, totaling four million pounds of chicken, to more than Ofthe following food types, which one would you most prefer to increase? Chicken 47.5% Beef 38.8% Fish 3.6% Other 9A%, Pock OK @ A partnership is supplying food whereit’s needed most—to the nation’s food banks. 160 emergency food assistance agencies nationwide. Share Our Strength and Tyson Foods will continue to work with emergency food providers throughout the summer and beyond to ensure chicken products are getting to the kids who need it most. The survey was distributed to 476 emergency food providers across the country, and was designed to gather the insights of the people and organizations that face the problem of hunger on a daily basis, and to help enable companies to make donations moreefficiently. For more information on Share Our Strength or a complete copy of the survey, visit www.strength.org. For more information about Tyson Foods, visit www.tyson.com.
