Unit 1: Vocabulary from Readings 3

Summer meals are available to help millions of children get the nutrition they need. These meals could be a catalyst for improving the overall well-being of children across the nation.

No Kid Hungry works with local organizations around the nation to find new, effective, innovative ways to connect kids to the program and provide healthy meals during the summer months.

Summer storms and extreme heat close sites. As a result, for every kid who eats regularly at a summer meals site, there are five more who miss out. That adds up to millions of hungry kids. This has major ramifications.

A summer meals program that doesn’t reach kids exacerbates the struggles faced by many children growing up in poverty.

Hunger makes children more susceptible to chronic diseases, like iron deficiency, anemia, asthma, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease.

Hunger makes children more susceptible to chronic diseases, like iron deficiency, anemia, asthma, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease.

No one today can claim ignorance of the cost that this divide imposes on the poor and dispossessed who are no less deserving of human dignity, fundamental freedoms, security, food and education than any of us.

Today’s real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated.

We have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire.

In the early beginnings of the 21st century—a century already violently disabused of any hopes that progress towards global peace and prosperity is inevitable—this new reality can no longer be ignored.

Time after time, a group or a nation inflicted extreme violence on another, often driven by irrational hatred and suspicion, or unbounded arrogance and thirst for power and resources. In response to these cataclysms, the leaders of the world came together at mid-century to unite the nations as never before.

A forum was created—the United Nations—where all nations could join forces to affirm the dignity and worth of every person, and to secure peace and development for all peoples.