It’s summertime! As the temperature climbs, children and teens are enjoying summer break. However, as we all know hunger never takes a break. Many children and teens rely on school meals and they need to know where to go for meals during this long-awaited vacation from school.
The Capital Area Food Bank, along with many other organizations, is spreading the word about free summer meals. Last Friday, the food bank partnered with Latin America Youth Center to canvass neighborhoods in Capitol Heights and Seat Pleasant, Maryland. Part of the group also handed out resources at a Mobile Food Pantry distribution. The teens from LAYC distributed over 1,500 door hangers and fliers, sharing information about how to find summer meals as well as information about SNAP benefits.
- LAYC youth canvassing
Help us make sure that this summer is fun for everyone. Join us in getting the word out about where kids can eat for free this summer! Distribute fliers in your community to anyone who has children or works with children who may be at risk of hunger. Contact Kendra Rowe Salas at rowesalask@capitalareafoodbank.org for additional outreach materials that you can use this summer. With 200,000 children and teens at risk of hunger in the D.C. metro area, this information is essential!
- Faith Temple Food Distribution
I wanted to check on what I needed to do to get meals for our summer program again this year – we received them for the last two years and I wanted to check and see if we were still on the list for this summer. We hold a 7 week summer program for refugee children downtown in the 78701 zip code.
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Please let me know about free summer meals for our program
Hi Interfaith Action of Central Texas. I believe you hit us in error as we are the Capital Area Food Bank for the Washington metro area. There is also a Capital Area Food Bank in Austin, which is located at http://www.austinfoodbank.org/test-home-B.html?utm_expid=16876350-1&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.austinfoodbank.org%2F