Event Date: September 15, 2018 Witnesses to Hunger invites you to join us at 2pm on Saturday, September 15, at the EAT Café for a fun, informative afternoon of community building and social justice! Our ten youth photographers, ages 10-16, will share their engaging work and their insights on how to address issues in their communities. Come hear…
Category: Presentations
Witnesses in Action: Tianna Gaines-Turner Talks to Congress
On May 17th, Tianna Gaines-Turner, Site Representative of Witnesses to Hunger: Philadelphia, testified before the Congressional Black Caucus and the House Task Force on Poverty, Income Inequality, and Opportunity. The event itself was a forum about the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report, a 1967 Congressional report exploring racism, poverty, and segregation in America,…
#WitnessesToHunger: Hunger-Free America Anti-Hunger Corps Workshop
Witnesses to Hunger is a program that develops the best advocates to fight hunger and poverty in America. We believe that the experts– people with first-hand experience– should be the ones leading the education, training, and development of the next generation of social justice advocates. We recently had the opportunity to do a workshop with…
#WitnessesToHunger at #CBCFALC2017: Fighting Poverty, Building Economic Security
For September’s #WitnessesChat, Witnesses to Hunger members Kim Hart of Witnesses to Hunger: New Haven and Tianna Gaines-Turner of Witnesses to Hunger: Philadelphia presented at “Fighting Poverty, Building Economic Security,” a panel presentation at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference in Washington D.C. Watch the video below to hear Kim discuss her experiences living with a criminal…
#WitnessesToHunger: New Haven Member Speaks With Yale Students
“Last autumn, on November 17 at Café Med, the crowd at the School of Medicine’s 24th Annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction grew quiet as Kim Hart, a 55-year-old lifelong New Haven resident, came to the microphone to provide a firsthand look at what it means not to have enough to eat. Hart, who lives in…
Imani S. Presents at #PhillyGrandRounds “A Witness to Hunger: A Look at the Unhealthy Impact of Poverty on an American Family”
Witnesses to Hunger were invited to present at Philadelphia Public Health Grand Rounds Poverty & Public Health: Addressing the Causes and Consequences forum. Imani S. presented her talk “A Witness to Hunger: A Look at the Unhealthy Impact of Poverty on an American Family”. Watch an excerpt below
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