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Kittery Lions Pancake Breakfast For Kittery’s End 68 Hours of Hunger   Saturday, August 19th from 7:30-11:00 AM Lions Club House, 117 State Rd., Kittery, ME Pancakes, Scrambled Eggs, Sausages, Homemade Baked Beans, Toast, Orange Juice, Coffee, Tea, Hot Chocolate Proceeds and Donations to benefit Kittery’s End 68 Hours of Hunger Program Wheelchair Accessible  Read More

The End 68 Hours of Hunger Newmarket building is complete! We hope you can join us in celebrating with our Grand Opening at our new location at 10 N Main St in Newmarket, NH on Saturday, August 26 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. There will be a room dedication at 11:00am and an Open House throughout the 2 hours for...  Read More

This article featured on NPR’s website, addresses the issue of early childhood hunger affecting future school performance. Kids Who Suffer Hunger In First Years Lag Behind Their Peers In School  Read More

The Forget family, owners of four local car dealerships, donated $4000 to End 68 Hours of Hunger Somersworth, Dover, Concord and Salem programs. Shown are Brendan Forget, Claire Bloom, and Sherrie Jules. The Forget family have been faithful donors every year since we began in 2011! The generous support of individuals like you makes it...  Read More

Kittery, ME volunteers were brought to tears on Thursday morning when we learned that Traip Academy’s senior class honored End 68 Hour of Hunger during their graduation. They gave Kittery’s End 68 Hours of Hunger $2017.00 as a class gift! Some students have been in the program all five years.   We would also like to honor one of Kittery’s...  Read More

First and foremost, we would like to acknowledge Christ Church United, 10 Arlington Street, Dracut, MA for a recent $1000.00 donation! This church has been one of our BIGGEST supporters, they also provide brand new backpacks filled with school supplies every fall!  Dracut End 68 is also running these 2 fund raisers: We are raffling off a SUMMER FUN/BBQ...  Read More

Jenny Ahlquist, counselor at Peterborough Elementary School, reports that she’s really careful to be discreet about getting the food from End 68 Hours of Hunger to the kids at her school. She goes around when the kids are at recess and puts the bags of food into the individual students’ back-packs, so no one has...  Read More

This eye opening article featured on CNN’s website highlights the problem of food-insecure households across the United States and how we can foster stronger communities through volunteerism. Why does America have so many hungry kids? In a one-hour, prime-time CNN special, “Champions for Change” introduces us to leaders and volunteers behind inspiring organizations airing Saturday, June 17,...  Read More

Instead of Final Exams at Oyster River High School in New Hampshire, ninth graders were able to participate in The Power of One program, an opportunity to organize a variety of charitable efforts. One student, Ty Mountain, chose End 68 Hours of Hunger-Oyster River for his project. Ty organized a food drive and collected over...  Read More

By ASHLEY SAARI Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Tuesday, May 16, 2017 It looks much like you would expect a food pantry to look – shelves stocked with simple staples, and lots of them. But instead of being in a church basement, or any of the other usual spots for such a service, it’s located in a storage space...  Read More