These Colorado Programs Are Combating Hunger with Nutritious Free Meals
To help the nearly 40 percent of Coloradans who are food insecure, Kitchen One for One and Project Worthmore aim to serve healthy food and spur community connection. Jenny McCoy •
March 11, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic may be easing, but the hunger crisis it exacerbated in Colorado is far from over. Nearly two in five Centennial Staters (38 percent) don’t have reliable access to nutritious food, according to a December survey by Hunger Free Colorado. That’s up from 29 percent in September 2020 and 10.2 percent in 2019 a sign of the profound and worsening economic challenges many are facing a full year into the pandemic.