Nonviolent Choice Directory: Help With Crisis Pregnancy & Beyond: Food & Nutrition

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HELP WITH CRISIS PREGNANCY & BEYOND: FOOD & NUTRITION

Food Assistance & Relief
Nutritious, Nonviolent, Eco-Friendly, & Low-Cost Eating
Nutritional Needs of Pregnant, Postpartum, & Breastfeeding Women and Their Children

Food Assistance & Relief

[Click-to-Donate for Hunger Relief] [Food Banks/Emergency Food Sources (By Country or Region)] [Government Food/Emergency Benefits (by Country)] [Human Milk Banks]

Click-to-Donate for Hunger Relief. Besides the well-known Hunger Site, you can also visit Pajacyk ("Wooden Puppet"), a program of Polska Akcja Humanitarna (PAH), the Polish Humanitarian Organization, for hungry and malnourished children in rural Poland. Play word and other games at FreeRice.com--your correct answers help win rice grains for the United Nations World Food Programme.

Food Banks/Emergency Food Sources. These websites can help you find local sources of food aid for yourself or loved ones. They can also help you learn more about the short-term and long-term issues of hunger and malnutrition and the many ways you can personally make a difference.

Worldwide:
Global Foodbanking Network. (English, Spanish, French.) Umbrella organization for food banks across the globe.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. (English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish.) FAO's mandate: "Achieving food security for all." (Food security means ready, ongoing access to high-quality, nutritious food.)
United Nations World Food Programme. (English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.) Each year, the WFP feeds around 90 million people, many of them refugees, in 80 countries.

By Country or Region:
Argentina--Red Argentina de Bancos Alimentos. (Spanish.) Note: Website may be down.
Canada--Food Banks Canada/Banques alimentaires Canada. (English, French.)
Europe--European Federation of Food Banks. (French, English.) Food banks in 18 countries.
Mexico--Asociacion Mexicana de Bancos de Alimentos. (Spanish.)
UK--Fair Share Community Food Network.
United States (50 States, DC, & Puerto Rico)--Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest).(English-only.)

Government Food/Emergency Benefits

Australia: Centrelink: Are You in a Crisis or Needing Special Help?
Bahrain: eGovernment Portal. Look for Social Assistance frrom the Ministry of Social Development.
Canada: CanadaBenefits/PrestationsduCanada. (English, French). Search for benefits available to you from the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Includes benefits for aboriginal peoples.
Estonia: Subsistence Benefit. (Estonian, English, Russian.) May be available from the Ministry of Social Affairs.
Hong Kong: Emergency Relief Services. (English, Chinese.)
Mauritius: Citizen Sub-Portal, Government of Mauritius. Click on "Social Security & Welfare."
New Zealand: Benefits for Individuals. From the Ministry of Social Development.
United States: Nutrition Assistance Programs (English, Spanish), including Food Stamps (SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) (English, Spanish) and WIC, the Women, Infants, Children Program (English, Spanish), which provides "supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk."

Human Milk Banks. Donor milk banks help to feed babies whose mothers cannot nurse them for medical reasons. See the Human Milk Banking Association of North America and the United Kingdom Association for Milk Banking. GIVE MILK: The International Breast Milk Project distributes breast milk donations from US mothers to orphaned babies in Africa.