Entergy Arkansas Bright Futures: Focusing Our Philanthropic Work on Food Insecurity
Entergy Arkansas Bright Futures: Focusing Our Philanthropic Work on Food Insecurity
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / June 11, 2024 / During the month of June, Entergy Arkansas is focusing our philanthropic efforts on food insecurity. One in five Arkansans faces hunger - and that number becomes one in four for children. Both statistics make the state the highest for food insecurity in the country.
2024年6月,安特吉阿肯色州的慈善重点是解决饮食安全问题。五分之一的阿肯色人面临饥饿问题,而儿童的数字则变成了四分之一。这两种统计数据使该州的饮食安全水平成为美国最高。
Summer Cereal Drive
夏日麦片行动
When schools close for the summer, children especially struggle to find food to replace breakfast and lunch they were receiving at school every day. Over 60% of children in Arkansas rely on free and reduced lunches, meaning when summer comes, they are struggling to fill the gaps that those meals provided.
当学校放暑假的时候,儿童尤其难以找到能够替代日常学校早午餐的食物。阿肯色州超过60%的儿童依赖免费和减免午餐,意味着当夏天到来时,他们正在努力填补这些餐食提供的空缺。
Meeting the basic needs of our most vulnerable customers, such as providing hot meals, is foundational to Entergy's corporate social responsibility objectives. Addressing food insecurity is a vital step in our strategy to develop and support poverty solutions.
满足我们最脆弱客户的基本需求,例如提供热餐,是安特吉公司社会责任目标的基石。解决饮食安全是我们开展扶贫解困策略的重要一步。
Entergy Arkansas is there to help with the summer cereal drive and other programs to help children and their families get the nourishment they need. In fact, we're the defending champions for the Arkansas Foodbank and KTHV Channel 11 Summer Cereal Drive.
安特吉阿肯色州正在为夏日麦片行动和其他帮助儿童和其家庭获得他们所需营养的项目提供帮助。事实上,我们是阿肯色州食品银行和KTHV 11频道夏日麦片行动的卫冕冠军。
Last year, we were the largest donor at just over $30,000 and some change. Every $1 donated can purchase one box of cereal, which provides five meals. And while the cereal and donations are collected in the summer, they are used to provide meals throughout the year to families in need.
去年,我们超过30,000美元的捐款和捐赠成为最大的捐赠者,每1美元捐赠可以购买一盒麦片,提供五顿餐食。而且,尽管夏季收集麦片和捐款,但它们用于向有需要的家庭提供全年的餐食。
We've pledged to defend our position and bring in even more donations this year. You'll see us at donations sites across our service territory, including Little Rock, Pine Bluff, Cabot, Hot Springs and Russellville.
我们承诺保卫我们的位置,并在今年带来更多的捐赠。您会在我们的服务领域内看到我们在捐赠站点,包括小石城,松树丘,卡博特,热泉和拉塞维尔。
Year-round Giving
全年慈善捐赠
The Arkansas Foodbank serves Central Arkansas and is one of six Feeding America food banks that helped found the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance. The others include Food Bank of North Central Arkansas, Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas, Harvest Regional Food Bank, River Valley Regional Food Bank and the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank.
阿肯色食品银行为中部阿肯色州提供服务,并是六个“喂食美国”食品银行之一,他们成立了阿肯色饥饿救济联盟。其他五个食品银行包括北部中央阿肯色州食品银行,东北阿肯色州食品银行,收获区域食品银行,河谷区域食品银行和西北阿肯色州食品银行。
Entergy Arkansas is a longtime partner to the Alliance, which seeks to advocate on food policy, provide resources, source nutritious food, secure food and funding, promote nutrition education, increase out of school meals participation, and raise awareness of hunger in the state.
安特吉阿肯色州是该联盟的长期合作伙伴,该联盟旨在倡导食品政策,提供资源,寻找富含营养的食品,获取食品和资金,促进营养教育,增加课外餐食参与度,并增加该州饥饿问题的认识度。
Last year, Entergy Arkansas donated $110,000 to the group as part of its Entergy Arkansas Bright Futures campaign celebrating 110 years in the state.
去年,安特吉阿肯色州赞助110年庆活动,向该组织捐赠了11万美元。
Since its founding in 2001, the Alliance has grown to include more than 500 members: the original six Feeding America food bank members, local food pantries, soup kitchens, food rescue organizations, global food wholesalers and retailers, state level hunger programs and hunger advocates from around the state who are working daily to reduce hunger in Arkansas.
自2001年成立以来,该联盟已增长到包括500多名成员:六个“喂食美国”食品银行成员,当地食品储藏室,餐馆,食品营救组织,全球食品批发商和零售商,国家级饥饿计划和来自全州的饥饿倡导者,他们每天都在努力减少阿肯色州的饥饿问题。
Programs through the Alliance and sponsored by Entergy Arkansas this year will include the Hunger Action Breakfast, Serving Up Solutions, Watermelon Crawl and College Hunger Summit.
该联盟的项目和安特吉阿肯色州赞助的项目今年将包括饥饿行动早餐,解决方案服务,西瓜爬行和大学饥饿峰会。
While we are putting a lot of effort into addressing food insecurity in June, you'll also see us serving in our community in other ways. One grantee we'll be volunteering to help with is Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Juneteenth in Da Rock commemoration, which happens all month long. It's one of several ways we help create and celebrate diversity, inclusion and belonging for our employees and our communities.
尽管我们正在努力解决6月份的饮食安全问题,但您还会看到我们以其他方式在社区内服务。我们将志愿帮助Mosaic Templars文化中心Juneteenth in Da Rock庆祝活动,该活动将在整个月内进行。这是我们帮助创造和庆祝员工和社区的多样性,包容性和归属感的几种方式之一。
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