Kids Hope Alliance meal program expanding to help kids struggling with hunger

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At slightest 16 cardinal kids conflict with hunger each twelvemonth successful the U.S. -- that’s 1 successful 5 children. Locally, the Kids Hope Alliance is moving to alteration that successful Jacksonville.

The group’s repast programme is expanding.

For astir 20 years, Kids Hope Alliance has helped supply astir 2,000 children entree to escaped nutritious meals.

The radical serves 28 antithetic locations -- and the newest is astatine River City Science Academy Boys & Girls Club.

The caller tract volition springiness 100 children entree to Free, Nutritious nutrient aft school.

“It helps to span the spread of nutrient insecurity successful our city. So, the programs we’re backing are occurring successful areas wherever there’s 50% oregon much escaped oregon reduced luncheon for kids. So particularly during the schoolhouse twelvemonth kids tin spell to schoolhouse and they tin get meal astatine school, and they tin get luncheon astatine school. But this provides the accidental for them besides to person a nutritious good balanced ace earlier they spell location due to the fact that immoderate of those children whitethorn not get nutrient again until they instrumentality to schoolhouse the adjacent day,” said Mary Nash, Kids Hope Alliance Director of Grants Management.

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Just implicit 10% of each U.S. households experienced nutrient insecurity astatine immoderate constituent during 2019 according to the US Department of Agriculture.

The coronavirus pandemic has lone worsened the problem.

More than 13.5% of households experienced nutrient insecurity past year.

Data shows Black families are doubly arsenic apt arsenic achromatic families to conflict with this issue.

Location is different origin due to the fact that 19 cardinal Americans unrecorded successful nutrient deserts oregon areas with constricted entree to nutritious food.

Over the summer, Kids Hope Alliance served 200,000 meals to sites crossed Jacksonville.

The 28 sites wherever afterschool meals are offered by the enactment are listed below:

• 33rd Street Police Athletic League 2165 West 33rd. St. 32209

• America’s Little Leaders 1527 Gandy St. 32208

• Beaches Boys and Girls Club 820 Seagate Ave. 32250

• Cornerstone Day School 9039 Beach Blvd. 32216

• Don’t Miss a Beat astatine Edith Brown Ford 2839 W. Beaver St. 32254

• Eastside Police Athletic League 1050 Franklin St. 32206

• Foundation Academy Afterschool Program 3675 San Pablo Road S. 32224

• Henry T. Jones Community Center 3856 Grant Rd. 32207

• Global Outreach Charter Academy 8985 Lone Star Rd. 32211

• Johnnie Walker Community Center 2500 W. 20th St. 32209

• Joshua Christian Academy 924 St. Clair St., 32254

• Julian Barrs Community Center 10151 Crystal Springs Rd. 32221

• MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation 1096 West 6th St. 32209

• Mallison Park Police Athletic League 441 Day Ave. 32254

• Mary Lena Gibbs Community Center 6974 Wilson Blvd., 32210

• Mitchell Community Center 1010 Acorn St. 32209

• Monument Police Athletic League 3450 Monument Rd. 32225

• NFL YET Boys & Girls Club 555 W. 25th St. 32206

• River City Science Academy Boys & Girls Club 7450 Beach Blvd. 32216

• Sanctuary connected 8th Street 120 Eight Street E 32206

• THD 24 Hr. Christian Learning Center 5013 Broadway Ave. 32254

• The Boys & Girls Club astatine Southwind Villas 8711 Newton Rd. Bldg. 14 32216

• The Bridge Boys & Girls Club 1824 Pearl St. 32206

• The Carpenter’s Shop 1601 University Blvd. 32211

• Victory Pointe Boys & Girls Clubs 6750 Ramona Blvd.32205

• Vision of Excellence astatine McGirts Creek 8435 118th St. 32244

• Wayman Academy of the Arts 1176 Labelle St. 32205

For much resources, you tin click here: https://www.kidshopealliance.org/

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