The Food Bank of Lincoln is helping make sure children have access to nutritious meals while school is out for the summer. Through the federally funded Summer Food Service Program, free meals will be available to children ages 1 through 18 at more than two dozen sites across Lincoln.
“Those different sites have a little variance in their hours, but mostly operate all summer long and serve breakfast and lunch,” says Tiffany Murray, Chief Operating Officer for the Food Bank of Lincoln.
She says they partner with Hy-Vee to provide those meals to help fill the nutrition gap many families face when school cafeterias are closed during the summer months. Those meal sites are located in low-income areas where at least half of local children qualify for free or reduced-price school meals…