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Helena Food Share: Helping 1,500 Families A Month

For a state in the richest nation in the world, it's an awkward truth that many Montanans go hungry. In Helena, approximately fourteen percent of residents face hunger. Host Brian Kahn talks about it with Ann Waickman, Executive Director of Helena Food Share.

Who comes to Helena Food Share?   

"We really try to never have to come in here, but we usually end up here a few times a year.  I haven't been paid in three weeks and my wife's job just won't cover all our bills."  -HFS Client

"My husband and I used to donate to Food Share. I can't believe I'm a client now. We'll be back on the other side donating again someday." -HFS Client
   
"Not everyone has finances to pay bills and buy food. Without Helena Food Share we would be living on the streets." -HFS client

"Thank you all very, very much for all the giving. I am a single mother of 3 growing boys and we thank you so, so much." -HFS Client

“When my mom shops at Food Share she usually makes the food we get last a week, I get extra food from my school too.” -comment from child touring HFS pantry through summer youth program

"Thank you for this...This is the first turkey I've had in years because I just can't afford one." -HFS Client for Thanksgiving food

(Broadcast: "Home Ground Radio," 12/7/14. Listen weekly on the radio, Sundays at  11:10 a.m., or via podcast.)

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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