Food pantries across Iowa are taking part in the Healthy Kids Iowa pilot, which gives $40 worth of food monthly to 65,000 ...

Jodi Hess drove her Head Start van through the Upper Valley Medical Center parking lot in Troy on Tuesday and received 18 ...

The Troy location is one of two weekly mobile routes Children’s Hunger Alliance has this summer that distributes ready-to-eat meals for families to take home in the summer.

In place of Summer EBT, which put $40 per month on a family's SNAP or EBT card, Iowa's pilot program provides a pre-packaged ...

Social workers knew of Ebony Washington’s troubled history as a parent. And for months, relatives feared her daughter Kemy ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Healthy Kids Iowa program funds summer meals for kids, but does not go as far as Summer EBT, a federal program, food security advocates said. “Summer EBT would have assisted 245,000 ...

Do you want the 30 sen change or sweets?” a female vendor, who was selling homemade ice cream for 70 sen a stick, asked a ...

Extra meals for eligible children in KMAland are available for pickup at a Clarinda church the next two weeks.

A group of Johnson County agencies is coming together to host a Healthy Kids Iowa food distribution event Wednesday, July 30 ...

Like hundreds of Palestinians, Obeida was killed while waiting for aid distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Researchers studying low-income children in upstate New York found three distinct snack and drink consumption patterns.

Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences will host the 18th iteration of the celebration of creepy-crawlers on Aug. 9 and 10.