Solidarity Network Against Hunger & Poverty
In the summer of 2021, at the request of Maine’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry, ROSC organized a group of people with lived and living experiences of poverty and hunger to weigh in on policy recommendations made in the 2019 Interim Report on Ending Hunger in Maine by 2030. This process, done in partnership with Dee Clarke of Survivor Speak USA, resulted in the publication of a 32-page report (linked below) that offered testimonies describing lived experiences of poverty and hunger, feedback on the recommendations made in the Interim Report on Ending Hunger in Maine by 2030, and community-generated solutions for addressing the root causes of hunger, poverty, and social inequities. Since the publication of that report SNAHP (pronounced SNAP!) continues to come together to organize, engage in mutual aid, and offer education on structural oppression, and best practices for working with people impacted by classism and other forms of systemic discrimination.
To read the Impacted Community Recommendations & Review On the Interim Report On Ending Hunger in Maine By 2030 report, click here. To listen to an audio version, click here.
To read the 2019 Interim Report on EHM2030, click here.
To read the updated EHM2030 plan, informed by the Impacted Community Recommendations & Review, click here. To listen to an audio version, click here.
SNAHP’s mission is “to empower impacted community members to address the root causes of poverty and food insecurity, such as racism, classism, and systemic oppression to create an equitable Maine.”
SNAHP’s goal is “to build a community of support for poor and working-class people to promote mutual aid, equity, and radical systems change through mechanisms of community organizing, leadership development, education, and peer support. We strive to amplify the voices of economically oppressed people, decolonize power structures within organizations and government agencies, and encourage narrative change around poverty and hunger to focus on collective responsibility instead of victim-blaming.”
**SNAHP’s logo was designed by Molly Riddle. To contact Molly for custom art requests, including logos, tattoo designs, and other custom art, call 207-479-0750, or email molikule90@gmail.com
