Witnesses to Hunger – New Haven Chapter is a group of community members with lived experience of hunger and poverty advocating for food security.
Donate to Witnesses to Hunger’s campaign to help combat hunger for kids in school over the upcoming April break! We need to fundraise $4,000 for grocery distributions for families that rely on school-provided meals over spring break. When kids aren’t in school, many don’t have access to food!
When schools are out in New Haven, kids lose access to free meals that are an essential part of their household's economic security. Witnesses to Hunger calls on Yale University, which holds billions of dollars in untaxed property assets in New Haven as well as a multi-billion-dollar endowment, to do more than study and issue reports on our kids' hunger. Yale needs to step up and commit $100,000 per year to support existing free grocery programs at New Haven Public School locations that reach families when New Haven public schools are not session. Our kids' physical, emotional, and academic health depends on getting enough good food to eat EVERY DAY. We call on people affiliated with Yale and people who live and/or work in New Haven to join us and SIGN OUR PETITION
The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (Yale PRCH) through the Citizens Community Collaborative (CCC) is developing a short, animated video that demonstrates how the Citizenship approach can positively impact individuals recovering from mental health challenges, substance use disorder, incarceration histories, and trauma. Member of Witnesses to Hunger are the voice actors.