New video: Share Our Strength working to end child hunger in Maryland
Share Our Strength has one goal: End childhood hunger in the United States. Ever since Bill and Debbie Shore founded Share Our Strength in 1984, they've been working with organizations and governments to raise funds and change policy to help America's kids get the food they need.
Over the past two decades, Share Our Strength has provided tens of millions of meals to children and worked hard in every corner of the country. But its impact has been especially significant in Maryland, right up the road from its D.C. headquarters.
This week, Share Our Strength released a new video highlighting its successful work in Maryland, where it has collaborated with the state government to work toward the goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015.
Share Our Strength worked with BSD to produce the video because they wanted to show their impact to potential partners and donors in a way that way that was accessible and compelling — and could be easily shared.
In the video, Rosemary King Johnston, the executive director of the Maryland Governor's Office for Children, says that Share Our Strength has been an enormous help in setting up after-school snack and meal programs in the Baltimore area:
"Share Our Strength has been able to tell us what has worked in other places and what hasn't worked in other places. Every time I think I don't know what to do next, Share Our Strength will say, 'I think we can figure this out,' and we all sit down and we do it. And then they find a way to do it for us."
The video also highlights the specific programs Share Our Strength has set up for kids in Baltimore's Mount Washington Elementary School and the Koinonia Baptist Church. "It's just a joy to go around and listen to the laughter ... and know that that child is going to go home and not feel the pangs of hunger for one night," says Bishop Douglas Miles.
As our friends at Share Our Strength and our neighbors in Maryland know, nothing embodies the holiday spirit more than helping to end child hunger.
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