GCS Searches for Community Partners to Provide Summer Meals

Nutrition Services sponsors Summer Food Service Program

Contact: Laurie Hogan (336) 370-8307
Created: 5/5/2009 4:13:56 PM

Guilford County Schools (GCS) is reaching out to local organizations for their help in providing students with healthy meals during the summer. GCS Nutrition Services offers the Summer Food Service Program to ensure that low-income children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session. Nutrition Services prepares meals daily and local organizations that offer supervised summer activities pick up the meals and provide them to children 18 or younger at no charge.

The program is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services, which reimburses GCS Nutrition Services for meals served to eligible children that meet the federal guidelines. Organizations that sponsor supervised camps or activities in the summer may be eligible to become one of the feeding sites for the program. To become a summer feeding site, organization representatives must attend one of the following training workshops:

• May 13, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. GCS Washington St. Annex, Room 223, 501 W. Washington St., Greensboro

• May 20, 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dean B. Pruette SCALE Academy, 900 English Road, High Point

• May 27, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. GCS Washington St. Annex, Room 223, 501 W. Washington St., Greensboro

Organizations that have questions about becoming a feeding site for the Summer Food Service Program should call GCS Nutrition Services Summer Feeding Program line at 336-370-3263 or 336-370-3266. Information for parents on the locations of the meals will be provided prior to the last day of school on June 15.

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