Summer Meals

The Food Connection hosted its first Summer Meals site in 2007. We provided a hot lunch and a snack each weekday at the St. Leo Food Connection for 20 – 25 children of our clients, as well as children from our local neighborhood. Since many of the children we serve receive free or reduced meals during the school year, this helped them continue to receive adequate nutrition during the summer months.

The program included arts and crafts projects to help feed their minds and spirits as well as their bodies. In 2008, we will continue the program at the St. Leo Food Connection, and also add a Summer Meals program in the Springbrook neighborhood. The Springbrook project will provide sack lunches in conjunction with our mobile food bank project.