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Dear Lucas,
"Your food is your fuel, it's your power, it's your everything. If you don't have food, you can't survive." Those are the words of Yolanda Prim, a principal at Robert Morehead Middle School in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
When Principal Prim started as Morehead's new principal last year, she faced a major challenge. Despite the fact that 91% of her students qualified for free and reduced-price meals, including breakfast, she found that the cafeteria was unusually empty in the mornings. For some kids, it was their inability to get there on time. For others, it was the shame they felt about being too poor to eat at home. Regardless of their reason for not participating, most of these students were coming to school too hungry to learn.
Please watch this video featuring Principal Prim and her students' struggle with hunger and see how the No Kid Hungry campaign is connecting kids to school breakfast programs.
Thanks to Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign, Principal Prim discovered that her school could provide breakfast in the classroom and improve the lives of Morehead's hungriest students. Now, 330 children are eating breakfast every day, when at the same time last year, the school was barely feeding the same number in a month.
Like Principal Prim, you can make a big difference -- watch this video to find out how you can help our nation's kids who are at risk of hunger.
Thank you for all that you do to bring an end to childhood hunger in America.
Sincerely,
Billy Shore
Founder and CEO