“It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.”
One person’s surplus is another’s necessity, and St. Mary’s Food Bank is hoping that once again the Valley’s overflowing neighborhood citrus trees can be turned into a bountiful harvest for those in need this winter. 
Spend an hour, learn a lot, at one of the Hunger 101AZ sessions during December. 
FOOD & FOOD DRIVES NEEDED, now more than ever.
Study Finds Insurance a Factor in Hospitalized Children's Death Rate (The October 30, 2009 Journal of Public Health article reported that children lacking health insurance were 60 percent more likely to die in the hospital than children with insurance. This means that approximately 17,000 children may have died unnecessarily in the U.S. over the past two decades. The Johns Hopkins study, once adjusted for race, gender and other differences, found that uninsured children were 37.8 percent more likely to die than insured children. The Johns Hopkins research studied more than 23 million hospitalizations of children 18 years and younger; while it "does not prove that being uninsured boosts a child's risk of mortality, it does suggest a strong association between insurance status and odds of dying." 
