Show 32: Excerpt - Summer Food Programs
The movie stereotype of summer in America is of being carefree and happy but for many families summer is stressful – even more so since the 2008 economic crisis. The expense of summer childcare is a big financial hit, and many kids lose access to the free or reduced price lunches available at school five days a week.
The Food Bank of Alaska is seeing to this need. KTD! contributor Jessica Cochran spoke with Susannah Morgan (pictured), Executive Director of the Food Bank of Alaska, about the effort to help get food to kids in the summertime.
Last summer, the food bank sponsored 42 sites around Alaska, and served 65,000 meals to children – that’s about one-third of the total number of meals served to kids under the USDA program last year. This year, their goal is to sponsor 60 sites, and serve 100,000 meals. The food bank is also happy to help organizations figure out how to sponsor their own sites. The food bank is holding a kick off event on June 1st; it keeps a list of all the summer food service sites on its website – FoodBankofAlaska.org.
Listen to how the Food Bank of Alaska is helping families during the holidays, too, in this excerpt from Show 12: Nutrition.
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  This show is made possible by the Association of Alaska School Boards’ Initiative for Community Engagement, an initiative funded by the US Dept. of Education to provide Alaskans with information, tools and assistance to work together and engage in the shared responsibility of preparing Alaska’s children and youth for the future. |