Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week
Taking place the week before Thanksgiving, 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.
Save the Date
HHAW 2024: Nov. 17-23
The Office of Student Volunteerism, the Comet Cupboard and other campus partners come together during HHAW 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.
Housing and Food Insecurity Facts
- What is Basic Needs Insecurity? “Insecurity or instability related to food, shelter, water and safety.” (BMC Public Health)
- The Hope Center conducted a nationwide study, covering 2‐ and 4‐year college institutions and over 195,000 students, and found that nearly 3 out of 5 students experienced basic needs insecurity.
- As of 2021, the USDA reports around 52.4 million people live with some level of food insecurity and are at risk of suffering from hunger.
- Nearly 1 in 6 children live in poverty. (Columbia University)
- Every year, hunger and hunger-related diseases claim the lives of approximately 9 million people, surpassing the combined death toll of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. (The World Counts).
