[Magdalen] Food for kids while schools are closed

[Suzie Buchanan]

This is the issue that will take most of my time in the next few days.  My
parish already provides weekend food once a month for 60 families from the
elementary school across the street.  Other churches provide that food the
other three weeks (we each take one week).  I'll be working hard to
coordinate with the school and the other churches to try to find a way to
provide daily food for the 60 MOST vulnerable, as well as for others who
this crisis will make vulnerable.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 7:32 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the “unintended consequences” of school closings is that kids who
> qualify for free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches won’t get those.
> For many, those are their only meals of the day. (Schools and churches send
> backpacks of food with them on weekends.)
> My daughter contacted the school superintendent, and she said they will
> need help with food distribution, so my grandsons and I have put our names
> in. I don’t know what they’re planning yet, but it will have to be massive.
> With no buses running, meals will probably have to be delivered, and we are
> a very rural, somewhat mountainous, county. Multiply this by hundreds of
> thousands of school districts throughout the country......