Teacher Kim Yip and 2-year-old Kayden Grady look at vegetable plants growing in a potted garden outside the Baltimore Catholic Charities Head Start program in Edgewood, Md., June 13. Two meals and a snack are fed to children between their educational act ivities. While severe malnourishment is rare in the U.S., more than 16 million children live in households that are unable to access enough nutritious food for a healthy life, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Government and charities work together in programs like Head Start to provide supplemental food to children across the nation. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
- Khalil Gibran, from The Prophet (1923)
