Today's post is from Angeline LeLeux. She blogs at InHerField.com. 

September is Hunger Action Month, and the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma has chosen orange as the color to promote awareness of hunger in our city and neighborhoods. Driving around in Tulsa, we see orange nearly everywhere - miles and miles of road-construction signs, barrels, cones, and poles. What we don't always see is how hunger affects our friends and neighbors. 25.4% of Oklahomans in the eastern part of the state struggle with hunger at various times throughout the year. Oklahoma is in the top five states that have very low food security. Nearly 50% of Food Bank clients have made the choice between paying for food or paying for utilities. These are people of all ages, from all economic and educational backgrounds. In an uncertain economy, it's impossible to apply stereotypical ideas to the 60,000 people per week that rely on the Food Bank.

What can you do to help? Because the Food Bank relies on donated products, a few dollars can go a long way: $1 can provide up to seven meals! $160 will sponsor a backpack of food that will go home with a child every weekend so he or she has something to eat when not in school. Got a spare hour or three? Contact the wonderful people at the Food Bank and ask for a tour, or volunteer to sort and package donated food. And, don't forget the orange...bring awareness of hunger into your life and wear an orange ribbon, hand out oranges at work, or look at those road signs in a whole new way.