Food Pantry Listings On-Line.

To view locations and hours of operation go to "Need Food?" on the toolbar to your left and follow the links. Or check the website of Arkansas Access, using "food" as the keyword.

Legislators Accept Challenge, Vow to End Hunger in Arkansas / by William Green, Communications Director, AR Community Action Agencies Association

Responding to a challenge by the Arkansas Hunger Coalition and partners, more than 20 legislators ate on $3 a day for three days, and, later, at a news conference at the state capitol rotunda Aug. 17, told how the experience deepened their understanding of those who depend on food stamps and made them determined to end hunger in Arkansas. READ MORE...

Starting a Food Pantry? World Hunger Year has put together some tips and how-to's.

Are You Pregnant, or a Mother of Small Children? Check out the WIC program, which offers breastfeeding advice, nutritious food, and nutrition education to women meeting certain criteria.

Need Information on Federal Benefits? See this new website to find out what benefits you're eligible for and how to apply for them.

HOW DO I APPLY FOR FOOD STAMPS?

Go to this webpage and scroll down to "Food Stamp Program." There you will find links to more information and to an application form that you may download, print, fill out, and take to your county DHHS office.

hunger and poverty: food pantries, food banks, shelters, soup kitchens, gleaning operations, community gardens, Heifer International, Winrock, Food Stamps, WIC, school breakfast, school lunch, Summer Feeding Cooperative Extension, medical research teams, local, state, and federal office-holders, churches, and minority advocates.
The Arkansas Hunger Coalition is the statewide network that connects all organizations working actively against

Beans & Cornbread Legislative Supper. The Arkansas Coalition for Economic Security (ACES) hosted the second biennial Beans and Cornbread Legislative Supper on March 5th at a downtown Little Rock church. More than 100 advocates for low-asset and middle-income folks, 22 legislators, Governor Mike Beebe, Lt. Governor Bill Halter, and legislative staff came together for this educational event, celebrating recent progress and reminding one another that economic security for all is essential to our state's progress. For more pictures, click here.

(above) Beth Landon of CareLink, Allison Stroud of the Arkansas Rice Depot (Food for Kids), and Hildie Terry of United Methodist Women dish up beans for legislators and advocates.

 

 

(above) Governor Mike Beebe talks with Malvie Lee Giles of CURE, a nonprofit prison advocacy group.
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