Essex County is home to 776,000 residents. The food insecurity rate was last registered at 9 percent. That means 69,840 of our neighbors—children among them—spend their days and nights hungry. But thanks to the many agencies taking a more comprehensive, forward-thinking approach to poverty, many people are moving beyond hunger toward employment, enrichment, and fruitful lives.
Citizens Inn Haven from Hunger is one such agency. Serving residents of Peabody, Salem, and Lynnfield, its mission is to break down the patterns of instability in people’s lives. Their target population falls into the extremely-low-income
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