Food Bank of Alaska believes that no one deserves to be hungry.
Since 1979,
we have been securing donated food for nonprofit agencies to distribute to
hungry Alaskans.
Hope for child nutrition in Alaska
According to a 2006 survey, 15 percent of Alaska’s children live in food-insecure households, meaning that they don’t have access to enough food for a healthy, active life.
This problem is more severe in rural Alaska, where nearly one child in four experiences food insecurity.
Approximately one-third of Alaska’s school children are eligible to receive free or reduced price breakfast and lunch at school yet, nationally, Alaska ranks poorly in participation in child nutrition programs.
Alaska ranks 48th for participation in school breakfast, and 49th in summer nutrition participation according to a 2008 study from Food Research and Action Center (FRAC).
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Director's Diary
Here’s a toast to School Breakfast!
The Alaska Food Coalition, of which Food Bank of Alaska is a member, has been working for three years to expand the School Breakfast Program in Alaska. While theoretically every school in Alaska could offer federally subsidized breakfasts, the federal reimbursement is low enough to make this economically infeasible. The result is that 104 schools and 8 districts in Alaska do not offer breakfast at school. 15% of the students that qualify for free or reduced price school meals attend schools that do not offer a breakfast program -- that’s over 7,000 missed meals each day, over 1.2 million a year.
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Susannah Morgan,
Executive Director
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