Hunger Action Month
September is Hunger Action Month, and we are calling on you to get involved in the fight against child hunger.
One More Child exists to reach vulnerable children with Christ-centered services, including hungry children. In 2023, One More Child provided 19,580,059 meals to children and individuals locally and globally. We work to meet urgent needs of hungry children because we believe no one should go to bed hungry.
A Few Hunger Facts
35.5%
of households headed by single moms in the U.S. experienced food insecurity in 2023.
Source: Feeding America.
What We're Doing
One More Child is feeding children locally and globally through a number of impactful initiatives.
Backpack Meals Program
Food insecurity affects 100% of U.S. counties. There are children and teens in your community experiencing food insecurity, which affects their health, attitudes, and ability to learn. That’s where Backpack Meals come in.
Backpack Meals are a simple, cost-effective way to provide food for children who otherwise may go hungry during non-school hours. Working with churches and community partners, we pack and deliver bags of food to local schools to ensure they won’t go hungry on the weekend.
You can get involved in the Backpack Meals Program by adopting a school or hosting a meal-packing event. You have a role to play in stopping child hunger in your community.
Compassion Ministries
One More Child’s Compassion Centers have food, household goods, diapers, clothing, and other necessities for children and families in our programs and for those in need in the community. Families can access fresh produce, boxed goods, milk, juice, and more to ensure their children receive nutritious, energizing food.
Want to know more? See a tour of a Compassion Center here.
Child Sponsorship
In 2022, an estimated 45 million children worldwide under the age of five suffered from wasting, the deadliest form of malnutrition. Our Child Sponsorship program is designed to change, and potentially save, the lives of children in developing countries in especially vulnerable situations. By sponsoring a child, you provide life-changing food, clothes, school supplies, medicine, and educational opportunities. Through One More Child mission trips, you will even have the opportunity to visit your sponsored child.
There are children currently waiting to be sponsored. Sponsor a child today to personally ensure they have food on their table.
What They're Saying
One More Child’s distribution initiatives through our Compassion Ministries would not be possible without our resource partners, whose community connections are able to distribute food locally to those in need.
See what our resource partners are saying about our Child Hunger program:
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“Our pantry has at times been bare due to the overwhelming need for food in our downtown community in Bradenton. Thanks to our partnership with your organization, we are able to provide drinks and snack bags to the homeless, food boxes to needy families and once a month we serve a hot meal to the community. We sincerely appreciate being partners with One More Child at the Azinger Family Compassion Center.”
—First Presbyterian Church-Bradenton
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“It is a big blessing what Christ is doing through you! We are very thankful to Jesus and to you! Slavic is an orphan from Kharkiv, who grew up in Ukraine on the streets. He fell from an 8th floor of a building, broke most bones, and is disabled. He is grateful for One More Child and the food it provides!”
—Living Hope Bible Church
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“One lady expressed how she and her seven kids have been blessed by Northside Church of Christ. She doesn’t know how they would have survived. Another gentleman told us they haven’t had a blessing like this in many, many years. We have testimonies every week from those that are in need. We thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for allowing Northside to be a part of One More Child. The organization has been tremendously great to our congregation and community. Thank you, a million times.”
—Northside Church of Christ
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“With the help of One More Child we have been able to open more locations throughout the community. We are a mobile food bank that goes out to the communities in need. We are up to 7 locations a month and help another group serve a migrant camp by providing meat and other food to them.”
—Moving Hope, Inc.
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“One More Child has been nothing short of a divine intervention to Freedom Gathering. We thank God constantly for Him connecting us with you, and for your generosity and assistance with providing so many items to help us do God’s work. Thank you all, God bless you all, you are wonderful.”
—Freedom Gathering Church, Inc.