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OUR COMMUNITY

Community Feature

The greater Eau Claire community is the heart and soul of our foundation. To highlight and promote the outstanding work of our nonprofit partners in our community, we feature significant progress and notable events in our community on a rotating basis. To read past community features, visit our archives.

May 2025: World Hunger Day

An infographic with an image of wrinkled hands holding an empty bowl and text that says: “World Hunger Day is coming up on May 28th. Founded by The Hunger Project in 2011, World Hunger Day notes that it “has grown into a globally-recognized day of significance and millions of individuals, organizations, corporations, and governments have come together to highlight the importance of creating a world without hunger” in the midst of continued global food crises.

An infographic that says: You can find food insecurity in every county across the United States. 2023 statistics indicate that 47 million Americans (over 13% of the total population) experienced food insecurity that year. About half of those don’t even qualify for federal benefits because the poverty threshold has been calculated against unrealistic standards for decades. And those statistics are much higher when accounting for racial and socioeconomic disparities. Local organizations like The Community Table and Feed My People Food Bank serve as vital resources to protect our neighbors from hunger and starvation, but we all have to help however we can, whether that’s donating, volunteering, or just spreading the word.

An infographic that says: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is sounding the alarm that global health is in crisis due to diminishing donor support and brutal budget cuts. Internationally and at home, the United States’ recent actions, including cutting all funding to the WHO, is deepening these impacts. Cindy McCain, Director of the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) and wife of the late Senator John McCain, said in an interview with PBS, “Food is not political. And to make food political is something that is unconscionable, number one, but, number two, it just shouldn’t happen.” But we see it happening across the planet.

An infographic with an image of an abandoned cloth doll amidst rubble in the ruins of Gaza and text that says: “Israel began blocking all food and aid from entering Gaza over two months ago, with UNICEF saying, children face “growing risk of starvation, illness, and death.” The WFP has run out of its food stocks, saying in a statement a week and a half ago that it had “delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in the Gaza Strip.” Those kitchens are now completely empty. A recent story by Doctors Without Borders says, “Gaza has become a ‘mass grave’ for Palestinians and those helping them” as Israel continues to target civilians and aid workers.

An infographic that says: In Haiti, over half the country’s populace⏤5.7 million people⏤ face enormous levels of acute hunger, malnutrition, and disease, according to a recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis. Separately, Sudan recently marked two years of a civil war which has seen millions flee their homes only to discover famine and a lack of access to humanitarian assistance. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently noted, “We are seeing massive violations, massive displacements, and a devastating impact on millions of people.”

An infographic that says: “How can I help?” There’s so much you can do locally and globally, but here are a couple ways to get started right here in the Chippewa Valley. Later this month, The Community Table will hold a fundraiser for World Hunger Day on May 28th. You can learn more about how to support this organization in this or any other way at thecommunitytable.org. For more information about supporting Feed My People Food Bank, visit their website at fmpfoodbank.org.

The Community Table

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