What happens if I don’t receive a meal?

About 18% of guests will not receive a meal. Last year, however, many guests who did receive a meal shared it with their neighbors. No matter what you are served, we ask you to reflect on what it might feel like to actually go to bed at night without a meal.

The results of the 2018 Iowa Youth Survey have recently come out, and we are seeing that the rate of thought of suicide in young people continues to rise.  Nationally, surveys show that among teenagers, 3 out of 20 students has thought about suicide in the last year.  The results of the 2018 Iowa Youth Survey show that a high number of those young people in Iowa have even gone so far as to make a plan for suicide.