Buddy Edwards is a life-long resident of Waco, Texas, attending public school and graduating from Richfield High School in Waco in 1968. He graduated from Baylor University with a BA in Sociology in 1972 and obtained a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1976. He worked for 29 years at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center as Director of Planning and Research and Grants Officer. After leaving Hillcrest, he has served as Assistant Executive Director at Caritas of Waco and has been Executive Director there since December, 2008. Buddy has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations and is currently President of the Board of Youth Connection, Inc. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Waco. In addition he performs with the 50’s-60’s musical group, “The Morticians.”
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Written by Buddy Edwards, Director
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We hear almost daily the staggering figures about hunger in the United States. For example: “The number of Americans who don’t have enough to eat has reached 49.1 million including nearly one child in four—the highest figures since the government started keeping track in 1995.”
We also are more often using the term “food insecurity.” Food insecurity is the “availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or having limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.” On the other hand, hunger is defined as “the uneasy or painful sensation caused by a recurrent or involuntary lack of food and is a potential, although not necessary, consequence of food insecurity .”
The USDA reported in 2009 that 17 million households (14.6 per- cent) were food-insecure in 2008, an increase from 13 million (11.1 percent) in 2007.
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