The Emergency Food Assistance Program
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) offers a high volume of nutritious food to help fill the shelves of the food banks and meal programs we serve in Western Washington, and throughout the country. However, with the pressure to secure a balanced budget, our federal lawmakers are considering significantly cutting those fundamental resources from hunger-relief work.
Our federal lawmakers are in the thick of budget negotiations. It is important for us as hunger-relief advocates to speak up for these essential resources now to educate our legislators on the devastating impacts of cuts to basic resources like TEFAP.
Over the past three years there has been strong support for TEFAP with the funding provided in the 2008 Farm Bill. However, threats to this program include an enormous 50% reduction in available food for fiscal year 2011. This decline in food will soon be felt as the summer months quickly approach, which is a time when more families rely on food bnaks to help feed themselves and their children because they can no longer depend on school breakfast or lunch programs.
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) offers a high volume of nutritious food to help fill the shelves of the food banks and meal programs we serve in Western Washington, and throughout the country. However, with the pressure to secure a balanced budget, our federal lawmakers are considering significantly cutting those fundamental resources from hunger-relief work.
Our federal lawmakers are in the thick of budget negotiations. It is important for us as hunger-relief advocates to speak up for these essential resources now to educate our legislators on the devastating impacts of cuts to basic resources like TEFAP.
Over the past three years there has been strong support for TEFAP with the funding provided in the 2008 Farm Bill. However, threats to this program include an enormous 50% reduction in available food for fiscal year 2011. This decline in food will soon be felt as the summer months quickly approach, which is a time when more families rely on food bnaks to help feed themselves and their children because they can no longer depend on school breakfast or lunch programs.
Take Action!
You can help! Send a message to your federal lawmakers today and tell them to secure funding for the Emergency Food Assistance Program. Make your priorities known to help secure basic funding for hunger-relief.
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