SECOND HARVEST Food bank distributions

In 2005, Second Harvest Food Bank distributed 4.5 million pounds of food to the 195 hunger relief agencies it serves in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties. For every $1 donation it receives, Second Harvest can distribute $15 worth of food to hungry families. The biggest needs are peanut butter, tuna fish, canned meats, canned vegetables and cereal.
THE FACE OF POVERTY
Seventeen percent, of 23,960, of the children in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties live in poverty.
One in four people in line at a soup kitchen is a child.
Thirty-nine percent of emergency food recipient households have at least one adult working.
Source: Second Harvest Food Bank