National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week



Hunger and Food Insecurity Facts

  • What is food insecurity? The state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable nutritious food.
  • A nationwide study by NSCAHH and Student PIRGs in 2016 surveyed students at 34 colleges and found that 48% respondents reported being food insecure, including 22% with very low levels of food security that qualified them as hungry.
  • More than 42 million Americans are at risk of suffering from hunger.
  • Nearly 1 in 5 children lives in poverty.
  • 795 million people – or one in nine people in the world – do not have enough to eat. Of those, 60% are women.
  • Every 10 seconds, a child dies of a hunger-related disease worldwide.

Save the Date
NHHAW 2022: Nov. 14-18

Taking place the week before Thanksgiving, National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week serves as a time to reflect on what we are grateful for and how we can come together to shed light on a pair of issues affecting millions of Americans today. The Office of Student Volunteerism, the Comet Cupboard, and other campus partners come together during NHHAW to provide UT Dallas students with opportunities to learn about food insecurity, while also connecting them with resources that allow them to help give back.

If you attend any of the NHHAW events, be sure to use #NHHAW and #VolunteerUTD to tag your photos and experiences!