One thing every child needs to thrive in school is food, and a state-wide business hosted a meeting to make sure food is available to every child in Lima City.
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Children from 1 to 18 years of age are able to get a hot meal Monday through Thursday through July 31st. School officials want people to understand this is for any child, not just Lima City School students.
“On June 9, we are actually having Lunch, the Ohio summer lunch mascot, coming,” said Carrie Woodruff, food service director for Lima City Schools. “He’s going to be giving out coloring pages, and we’ll have a few giveaways. He’s coming to support our summer lunch program.”
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LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) - State and city officials are helping make sure children in Lima don't go home hungry. They partnered with Children’s Hunge…
Food insecurity has been identified as a health priority for some local students, prompting three organizations to collaborate on a solution.
They have been making pit stops all over Lima, 5 days a week every week to give kids and their families a chance to pick up a free nutritious meal.
The Lima YMCA has joined with Children’s Hunger Alliance, a nonprofit from Columbus, to hand out meals that contain all 5 USDA creditable meal components. The Lima YMCA has been given 175 meals per week which have been distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. The meals are available to anyone who is under the age of 18 years, all in the effort to give kids in the Lima area healthy meals.
The Lima City Schools Food Service Department recently got a “No Hungry Kid School Nutrition” grant from the Children’s Hunger Alliance. The $24,000 grant was used toward creating a more cautious lunchtime at Heritage Elementary School and North Middle School. Additional lunch tables were purchased along with a new ID scanning system to help with social distancing and to minimize surfaces touched by students.
SAFY is known for helping families and children in need of behavioral health, but when the pandemic hit in March, they extended their resources to also help feed those in need. This was all made possible through the partnership with Children’s Hunger Alliance, a nonprofit from Columbus.