In this country, there are over 12 million children who go hungry every day. An even larger number are what is called "food insecure," which means that they aren't sure, from day to day, where their next meal is coming from. Hungry kids are at risk for chronic illness, obesity, and hospitalizations; they do poorly in school and often have behavioral issues. Think about how your own children fare when they don't have enough to eat -- when they miss a meal or a snack. Now imagine living every day like that.

This needs to stop. And Share Our Strength is working on it.

Share Our Strength is a national web of community groups, activists and food programs; their goal is "to catch children at risk of hunger and surround them with nutritious food where they live, learn and play." This weekend, to coincide with Monday's National Day of Service, Share Our Strength is making it easy for you to help them do just that.

Share Our Strength, in partnership with AT&T, has launched "Operation No Kid Hungry," a campaign to raise funds to help end childhood hunger and encourage Americans to hold food drives in their own communities. The campaign responds to Barack Obama's call to action for corporations to serve our nation's communities and builds on his commitment to end childhood hunger by 2015.

How can you participate? Easy. You can donate $5 to Share Our Strength by text messaging "SHARE" to 20222.
AT&T will match all text donations up to $100,000. Five dollars doesn't seem like much, but if you do it and your spouse does it and your kids and your friends and ... it all adds up.

Want to do something more concrete? Hold a food drive in your community, or watch your local news for organized food drives, beginning Monday, January 19th, which is Martin Luther King Day and a national day of community
service.

It takes so little to help hungry kids -- won't you share what's on your table?