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Guide to the San Diego Hunger Coalition Records
MS-0213
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Collection Title: San Diego Hunger Coalition Records
Dates: 1983-1983
Identification: MS-0213
Creator:
San Diego Hunger Coalition
Physical Description: 0.63 linear ft
Language of Materials:
English
Spanish;Castilian
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: scref@rohan.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
The San Diego Hunger Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to and participation in federal
food programs, such as food stamps and school lunch programs. The Coalition educates and advocates about hunger issues at
the local, state, and national levels, with the goal of alleviating hunger in San Diego County. In 1983 the Coalition created
the Hunger Survey Committee, which attempted to quantify the total number of hungry persons in San Diego County. They did
so by asking people at a local soup kitchen to fill out surveys, surveying door-to-door in all neighborhoods and communities
in the county, and mailing surveys to food providing agencies in the county.
This collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Organizational Records
Food relief -- United States
Hunger -- United States
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This collection is open for research.
Identification of item, folder title, box number, San Diego Hunger Coalition Records, Special Collections and University Archives,
Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.
This collection consists of materials related to a survey about hunger in San Diego carried out by the Hunger Survey Committee
of the San Diego Hunger Coalition in 1983, in an attempt to quantify the total number of hungry people in the County. These
materials include completed anonymous survey forms from a large number of zip codes in San Diego County, which asks individuals
about their ability to buy food, how the economy affects their food-buying habits, and which gathers income, employment, age,
and racial data.
The materials also include tally sheets, completed survey forms mailed to religious, humanitarian, and civic organizations
providing free food to individuals, and the final report of the committee, which discusses the attempt to trace pockets of
hunger in the county by geographical location.