Jeff Bridges jokes with a puppet during the launch of the Virginia No Kid Hungry Campaign in Arlington, Virginia. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)
Bridges joined Governor Bob McDonnell and US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at Barcroft Elementary in Arlington for the start of Virginia's No Kid Hungry campaign. The programme will connect low-income kids to federal nutrition programmes, like those that provide lunches during summer when school's out.
Currently fewer than 20 percent of kids in Virginia who are eligible for free and reduced-price school lunches participate in summer meal programmes.
Bridges, who won an Academy Award for his role in "Crazy Heart," serves as a national spokesman for the No Kid Hungry campaign. Bridges said he'd feel miserable if he didn't do his part to alleviate childhood hunger.
