Barbie is a single mother living in Philadelphia who said" after I got laid of from my job I had no choice but to ask for assistance ,nobody wants to ask for assistance but I need to be able to provide for my kids." In the film Barbie says that" I got turned down for food assistance because i made $2.00 above the poverty line and due to a lack of nutritional food in Aidan's early child life he has developed among other aliments he has a speech impediment. Barbie and 40 North Philadelphia mothers have formed "witness to Hunger" led by Dr. Mariana Chilton. Along with Senator Casey, they went to Washington to lobby Congress to increase funding for the Child Nutrition Act.
Food insecurity