NDESPA and partners will host a viewing of A Place at the Table on May 9th at 5:30 at the Grand Theater in Bismarck. Join us for the film and a short discussion after.
Fifty million people in the U.S.—one in four children—don’t know where
their next meal is coming from. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori
Silverbush examine the issue of hunger in America through the lens of
three people struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single
Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a
better life for her two kids; Rosie, a Colorado fifth-grader who often
has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble
concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a Mississippi second-grader
whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty
calories her hardworking mother can afford.
Ultimately, A Place at the Table shows us how hunger poses serious
economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it
could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides — as
they have in the past — that making healthy food available and
affordable is in the best interest of us all.
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