A Place At The Table is a nonfiction documentary on people who are starving in the United States. In the United States there are 50million people who doesn’t have anything to eat or will not know where their next meal will come from. In this document they show the struggles of food insecurities of three people Rosie a fifth grader from Colorado, Barbie a single mother from Philly, and Tremonica a second grader from Mississippi who has asthma. A place at the table also shows how food hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation. That it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides as they have in the past that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all.
Rosie is a fifth grader from Collbran, Colorado she doesn’t concentrate in school because she is hungry and her family cannot provide the proper foods for her. They tend to look for food from friends and neighbors. Or they even sometimes get food from food pantries. Her teacher notices her strange behavior because she was once one of those kids who didn’t know where their next meal would come from. Her teacher began helping out at a food bank and she would deliver bags of food to Rosie and her family’s house. She also delivered bags of food to other families in need.
Barbie Izquierdo was a single mother from Philadelphia who grew up in poverty. Barbie struggled to feed her children when she had a job because she made too much at her job so she didn’t qualify for food stamps. When she got fired she reapplied for government assistance, in which she was granted daycare assistance and food stamps. Barbie along with other women in Philly became an advocate for hunger in the United States. She soon then got a full time job and the government cut off her government help. Now she struggles worst then she did when she was on government assistance.
Lastly Tremonica is a second grader from Mississippi who suffers from asthma and her mother cannot afford to feed her properly. Tremonica’s health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford. Since vegetables and fruits are rarely too expensive for her mother to afford she settle for buying her daughter junk food. which is also causing her daughter to be obese for her age.
Rosie is a fifth grader from Collbran, Colorado she doesn’t concentrate in school because she is hungry and her family cannot provide the proper foods for her. They tend to look for food from friends and neighbors. Or they even sometimes get food from food pantries. Her teacher notices her strange behavior because she was once one of those kids who didn’t know where their next meal would come from. Her teacher began helping out at a food bank and she would deliver bags of food to Rosie and her family’s house. She also delivered bags of food to other families in need.
Barbie Izquierdo was a single mother from Philadelphia who grew up in poverty. Barbie struggled to feed her children when she had a job because she made too much at her job so she didn’t qualify for food stamps. When she got fired she reapplied for government assistance, in which she was granted daycare assistance and food stamps. Barbie along with other women in Philly became an advocate for hunger in the United States. She soon then got a full time job and the government cut off her government help. Now she struggles worst then she did when she was on government assistance.
Lastly Tremonica is a second grader from Mississippi who suffers from asthma and her mother cannot afford to feed her properly. Tremonica’s health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford. Since vegetables and fruits are rarely too expensive for her mother to afford she settle for buying her daughter junk food. which is also causing her daughter to be obese for her age.