Friday, May 7, Chartwells is celebrating National School Lunch Hero Day and will be recognizing the dedicated and committed people on the front lines of feeding school children. These superheroes are the men and women who have come to school kitchens and cafeterias, rain or shine, to serve meals in school, through bus deliveries, and at community pick-up sites since schools first closed due to the pandemic last March.
Nearly 50 percent of school-age children are dependent on school lunch, and when schools are closed – or held virtually – six out of seven hungry children don’t get adequate meals. According to a recent study released by The Journal of the American Medical Association, “Schools are now the single healthiest place Americans are eating. This finding is particularly timely given widespread school closures over the last year from COVID-19.” These “heroes” have converted school parking lots into meal distribution sites, are riding buses to deliver meals, preparing “grab and go” meals, and serving kids in cafeterias and classrooms – everything to help make sure that hunger isn’t something that families have had to worry about.
Thank you "HEROES"!
- Brandy Vaughn, Chartwells