[Magdalen] Food for kids while schools are closed

[Grace Cangialosi]

Our system (Greene County) is planning a drive-thru location at one of the schools later today and Thursday that will give two breakfasts and food for other meals to each child under the age of 18, no questions or screening required. They’re not sure about home deliveries yet until they see how today goes, but they’re keeping potential volunteers informed.

> On Mar 17, 2020, at 11:48 AM, Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net> wrote:
> 
> Our school system will be sending food home to the kids.  I am not sure how
> but we were asked to contribute tote bags to help with packaging.  I
> delivered eleven of them yesterday.  There was a lot of history, some
> decades old, in those bags!
> 
> Mike Mahoney
> Stoneledge
> 446 Long Mountain Road
> Washington, VA 22747
> 
> 
> 
>> 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......