Show ' term for thosewho must It’saquietcatastropbetbdt’srarelyreportedyacbildhungrisaprobIemwecansolve together PARADE QmtnbutmgEdior David spent moruhtmvdmg across the country visitingfamilies in tire neediest communities Here's what he saw (MR N THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ONLY a few miles from the gauxfy new homes that people here call "McMansions" sprawl some of America’s poorest ndghborhoods Shantytowns known as “colohias” are as common in this of South Texas as fields of cabbage and sugarcane More than 50000 people live in the area’s 1500 unincorporared communities where running warier is scans electricity is a luxury and one in eviy two children endures hunger Compean 23 and her husband Ismael 30 live in the Southside colonia 10 miles souths east of the prosperous banking ter of McAllen' with their sons Eduardo 7 Edgar cross-bord- Ismadjrandlbin er ! Dulce stares at a saucepan of beans simmering ' on her stove and triesto imagine how she can scretchthis meal to feed her family She decides COVER PHOTOGRAPH SYEDUE ADAMS Jwough tokeep nmtonipiaa zj andhroi-jbr- 2 “ISSItillS Oa child healthy: More tiniggiMtoMniiMta elwandeyiy than 13 million of chose to use half of her last loaf of white bread The people were children The US Conference of Compeans work hard bur like millions of families Mayors expects that requests for emergency mired with jobs they live below the food from families with children will increase in poverty line When she can Duke deans houses 91 of the nation’s cities this year They also Her husband does temporary construction jobs document that emergency food outlets in 56 and after work collects cardboard to recycle of the nation’s cities turned away hungry fami-pa- rt The Compeans receive$300 in food stamps a lieslast year because they ran out of resources Federal programs such as food stamps and free month but Duke says it’s a struggle no matter ' school lunches pro- how careful she is K IlTl tO llOt 3SllflIIl£u ' vide critical nutrition tCUyQUulflt Tm not ashamedto e tell you that often I Oltd! I don’t Celt SO ulCTC Will be to millions of don’t ear so there will dren And of an army enOUgh be enough for my volunteers at food ' banks church pan- tries and Soup kitchens is soughing to get food to the children who need it most But die safety Tunung 3W3y fiunilKS Last year according to the Department of Agri- net that most Americans presume is there to carch before theysinktoo far is tom in too culture 349 million Americans like the the were “food insecure"— government's many places leaving far too many in free faL peans low-wa- ge ' chil-Dulc- bmchildlCn” - Com-diildr- en PAOIS Aran 4 3004 PARADE |