Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of
healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she
works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family
lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family
lives in a food desert where
healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..
Forget - Me - Not Sourcing would facilitate the use of sustainable fabrics by providing designers with information and connecting them with manufacturers of textiles made in a way that is both environmentally sustainable and incorporates the tenets of environmental justice, such as
healthful working conditions and fair pay and
living conditions for those who employed in the textile industry.