Hunger Statistics in Arizona
� Currently nearly 1 in 3 children, 1 in 5 Arizonans, and 1 in 7 seniors in Arizona live in poverty.*
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Arizona’ s hunger rates are higher than national averages: 17.8 % of Arizonans are food insecure, compared to 15.9 % nationally, and 28.2 % of Arizonan children face hunger, compared to 21.6 % nationally.
� Arizona ranks third in the country for high child food insecurity rates, behind only New Mexico and Mississippi, with 456,760 children facing hunger on a daily basis.
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2 million Arizonans are considered working poor, living at or below the Federal Poverty Guideline. This is the majority of those served by the Food Bank’ s emergency food box program.
� More than 40 % of the households receiving emergency food assistance have at least one person who is working.
S t. Mary ' s Food Bank is ARMA Arizona ' s Charity of Choice. Every year we contribute monetary donations to them to help feed Arizona ' s families in need. We also sponsor volunteer days periodically where we as a chapter go to the food bank and help package food for distribution.
Every chapter meeting we ask if you are interested in the 50 / 50 St. Mary ' s Raffle. Half the money collected goes to one lucky winner at the end of the meeting and the other half is saved until the end of the chapter year. Once we have collected all the funds from purchased tickets during the chapter season, we write a check to St. Mary ' s Food Bank as our chapter ' s way of contributing back to the community.
$ 25.00 provides 175 meals to families who are hungry.
At the end of May 2016 our chapter donated $ 277.00 which was enough to provide almost 2000 meals( all from our little chapter!) Thanks to your generosity, we hope to be able to do the same again this year- or better yet- BEAT that amount!
If you don ' t want to participate in the St. Mary ' s Raffle, you can also do a straight donation and you will be provided a receipt for your taxes.
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