Dear Lucas,
No matter how many years I've been doing this work, it breaks my heart to talk with parents like Maggie and her husband Martin — families in America who are doing their best, but still going to bed hungry.
These families need your support.
Maggie and Martin live in Texas, with their children, Grady and Gwen. Martin was in the Marines but was injured in training. Now he works two jobs and Maggie works part time as well. But the money never lasts all the way to the next paycheck.
The food pantry at their church and the school breakfasts and lunches Grady gets at school are critical to helping Martin and Maggie ensure that their kids are fed.
No Kid Hungry is connecting families like Maggie's to critical meal programs and helping them to end hunger at home. Now kids like Grady and Gwen have access to the food they need to thrive all year long, at home and at school. We're putting a safety net in place to help ensure they will never have to experience hunger again.
But we still have a lot more work to do. More than 16 million kids in America still live in households that struggle to put food on the table.
So this Thanksgiving, let's make sure that kids like Gwen and Grady continue to get the food they need, every day. Please make a gift today.
You see we're not just feeding kids — we're ending childhood hunger in America. And we need your continued help. Together we can make sure no parent has to worry about whether their kids will have food on the table and no child has to go hungry, especially during the holidays.
Can I count on you to help hardworking families like Martin and Maggie's by making a generous gift right now?
Thanks for all you do for our nation's hungry kids.
With gratitude,
Billy Shore
Founder and CEO