One in six persons (16.9%) in Greenville lives in poverty, including more than one in five children (22.9%);
Nearly one in four persons (23.7%) in Spartanburg lives in poverty, including more than one of every three children (38.1%) - this is twice the national average!
More than one in five persons (22.5%) in Anderson lives in poverty, including more than one of every three children (35.5%);
A recent survey that studied food hardship, the lack of money to buy food that families need, found that 22.4% of all households in South Carolina could not always afford enough food to feed their families - the fifth-highest rate among all states (FRAC, 2010);
South Carolina has the fifth-highest rate of child food insecurity in the country. One out of every five children in the state lives in a household that can not always acquire enough food, including 20.7% of very young children under the age of five (
The state currently has the fourth-highest unemployment rate in the country, where one in eight adults is without a job (BLS, 2010);
The Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson CSA average unemployment rate for 2008 was 6.6%. By December 2009, the area had not only reached double-digit unemployment rates but the December rate was nearly double the average rate for 2008;Unemployment is now 12.2%.
Our services include homeless shelters for men, women, women with children, and families; free addiction recovery facilities (1 for men and 1 for women), a shelter for children, a shelter for teenage boys, a food relief ministry, and several transitional houses for men and women graduating our addiction recovery program. Our facilities include:
Miracle Hill Rescue Mission
Greenville Rescue MissionCherokeeCountySpartanburg Miracle Hill Childrens Home Miracle Hill Boys Shelter Miracle Hill Relief Ministry MiracleHillRenewalCenter MiracleHillOvercomersCenterWe have 8 locations in 4 upstate counties: Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg, CherokeeWe provide more services for the homeless than any other agency in the state. We were founded in 1937, as a small soup kitchen, during the great depression, by a group of local businessmen.
Individuals served 11,525Meals served 311,548Beds provided 167,306Volunteer hours 61,742Boxes of food given to needy families 32,123Commitments for Christ 381 (that we know about) we believe many others were madeGIVING by Groups:Individuals 61%Businesses 11%Foundations 13%Churches 8%Estates 7%
Annual Report
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