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Full Text of SR0675  94th General Assembly

SR0675 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, It is with deep concern for the hundreds of
3 thousands of citizens nationwide who face increasing
4 difficulties feeding their families that this body joins with
5 the Illinois Interagency Nutrition Council, the Illinois Food
6 Bank Association, and its individual Food Bank members as they
7 support America's Second Harvest's National Hunger Awareness
8 campaign to provide food assistance to hungry children; and
 
9     WHEREAS, Because of the sharp downturn in the economy,
10 numerous families on a daily basis are relying on food banks to
11 secure food for their families; and
 
12     WHEREAS, In Illinois, 8 food banks provide food assistance
13 to needy families and their children with a variety of feeding
14 programs including Kid's Cafes, Summertime Food Service, and
15 After School Snack programs throughout the year that are all
16 designed to reduce childhood hunger; and
 
17     WHEREAS, America's Second Harvest, the largest
18 hunger-relief organization in the United States, has seen an
19 increase in demand for food, particularly among families with
20 children, and it has launched a national campaign to secure
21 additional resources to help ease child hunger; and
 
22     WHEREAS, The date of June 6, 2006, has been designated
23 "National Hunger Awareness Day" and the Illinois Food Bank
24 Association members: the Central Illinois Food Bank in
25 Springfield; the Eastern Illinois Food Bank in Urbana; the
26 Greater Chicago Food Depository in Chicago; the Northern
27 Illinois Food Bank in St. Charles, Rockford, and Park City; the
28 Peoria Area Food Bank in Peoria; the River Bend Food Bank in
29 Moline; the St. Louis Food Bank in St. Louis, Missouri; and the
30 Tri-State Food Bank in Evansville, Indiana in partnership with
31 over 2,000 emergency food providers, have committed their

 

 

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1 support for America's Second Harvest's national campaign to
2 provide additional resources from our communities to combat
3 child hunger; and
 
4     WHEREAS, The additional attention generated by this
5 National Hunger Awareness Day will benefit the more than one
6 million adults and children who are at or below the poverty
7 level and likely in need of food assistance within Illinois;
8 therefore, be it
 
9     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL
10 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we proclaim June 6,
11 2006, as "National Hunger Awareness Day" in Illinois to help
12 secure additional resources to help end child hunger; and be it
13 further
 
14     RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
15 presented to the Illinois Food Bank Association members.