Help Feed The Hungry

Help your neighbors this Holiday Season by donating non-perishable food items, to benefit the Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties ....

Here's some facts about hunger here at the Jersey Shore .... from the Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties

In Monmouth & Ocean Counties:
• The Real Cost of Living (RCL) in Monmouth County for a family of two adults and two school aged children is $74,287; in Ocean County it’s $62,936.
• One in every 10 households in Monmouth County have earnings below the RCL; one in every 7 households earn below the RCL in Ocean County.
• One in every 10 people in Monmouth and Ocean Counties receive “emergency” food from the FoodBank’s network of pantries, soup kitchens and other agencies.
• The gap between the rich and the poor continues to increase. While personal income increased among the wealthy, so did poverty among the poorer segments of the population, rising from 5.3% to 6.8% in Monmouth County and from 6.7 to 11% in Ocean County in the period 2000-2010.
• Poverty rates among children increased significantly in the last decade: from 6.8% to 8.7% in Monmouth County and from 10.4% to 19.2% in Ocean County.
• The FoodBank served 51,000 children with emergency food in 2010, compared with “only” almost 19,000 in 2005.
• Of all households receiving emergency food in Monmouth and Ocean Counties, almost half (45%) of households with children experienced hunger during the course of the year.

You can donate non-perishable items now through November 30th at Immediate Medical ..... at the Tom's River Shopping Center on Route 37 in Toms River. Make a donation and feel good about giving back this Christmas ....