“When a good part of our country lives below the poverty line and access to healthy and fresh foods isn’t an option, that is where we need to focus our energy,” Garner writes. Eligible people include low-income women, infants and children up to the age of 5 who are at nutrition risk.
WIC is a federally funded, state-run special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children.
“But it’s a huge step and something that makes me very happy and proud.” “It’s been a crazy learning process and a nutty road, and we still have 48 states to go!” she continues. Garner announced the news on March 5 via a blog post on the Once Upon a Farm website, writing that the baby food line has been WIC-approved in two states, Florida and West Virginia, “feeding nearly 125,000 babies born into poverty,” she writes. Xx, JenĪ post shared by Jennifer Garner on at 1:43pm PST It’s been a crazy learning process and a nutty road, and we still have 48 states to go! But it’s a huge step and something that makes me very happy and proud. Today we are announcing that has been WIC approved in Florida and my home state of West Virginia, feeding nearly 125,000 babies born into poverty.
