Do you know where your next meal is coming from? How much it will cost for you to eat that meal? Will its portions keep you healthy, or just fed?
For many Pueblo residents, these questions determine whether they, or their families, go hungry on a daily basis.
Other options for food resources, such as blessing boxes where neighbors can anonymously donate shelf-stable food items or other necessities, have also sprung up across the city.
However, Pueblo s East Side is still considered a food desert, and has a long way to go until the area can be considered food secure.
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The foundation hosted a modified version of its annual Bessemer Christmas Extravaganza.
The annual event, started by city councilman and Pueblo Poverty Foundation founder Ray Aguilera, took place as a drive-thru celebration.
For more than two decades, Aguilera has hosted the event to reward the hardworking young scholars of Carlile, Columbian and Minnequa elementary schools.
“It may seem like we just do this,” Aguilera said. “But there is an alternative motive.”
Aguilera has partnered with the three elementary schools to encourage the children to find joy in learning.
The Vocabulary Challenge tasks students with enhancing their lexicon with as many new words as possible over the course of a school year.