What is the Texas Hunger Initiative?

The Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) is a capacity building project within the Baylor University Center for Family and Community Ministries and a partner of the BGCT Christian Life Commission that seeks to develop and implement strategies to alleviate hunger through policy, education, community organizing and community development.

Hunger is defined by the 2007 Hunger Almanac produced by Feeding America to be the "uneasy or painful sensation caused by lack of food, the recurrent or involuntary lack of access to food."

• 1.3 million Texans experience this daily
• 16.3% of Texans are hungry or food insecure, giving Texas the second highest food insecure rate in the United States
• Many of the 3 million children in Texas who participate in the free lunch program go without a meal on the weekends while schools are closed

To read more about the latest Texas hunger data just released November 16, 2009, you can download this news release from the Center for Public Policy Priorities.