Hunger

Letter carriers collect food today

OGDEN -- Catholic Community Services will team up today with the Utah Food Bank and the National Association of Letter Carriers to help "Stamp Out Hunger" during this year's annual food drive.

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Volunteers organize carts of food at the Joyce Hansen Hall Food Bank in Ogden earlier this year. Run by Catholic Community Services, it is one of several local food banks run by churches.

Churches step up to feed hungry

OGDEN -- When members of Hope Resurrected Church were looking for a location where they could expand their operation, room for their food bank was a prime consideration.

New trucks to help the hungry

OGDEN -- New trucks to deliver food to people in need will happen because of $100,000 in grants from Walmart's "Fighting Hunger Together" Facebook Campaign.

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From left, Ciarin Carroll, 14, Haley Schultz, 14, and Sarah Yost, 15, help fill bags with a mixture of rice, soy, vitamins and minerals, dehydrated vegetables and a vegetable chicken mix for the nonprofit group Feed My Starving Children on Tuesday at Alpine Community Church in Layton. The nonprofit group distributes the mixture, known as manna, to malnourished children in more than 60 countries worldwide.

Manna for the children: Layton church sponsors 'Feed My Starving Children' event

LAYTON -- AJ Dwyer quickly stuffed plastic, sealed bags -- filled with rice, soy and dried vegetables -- into cardboard boxes.

Campus food pantries ease student hunger, poverty

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- Just a short walk from a bustling fast-food court, the spread is humble: canned tuna, raisins, boxed rice, tomato soup and stack upon stack of ramen noodles. So, too, are the messages scrawled on a clipboard hanging nearby.

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