Making a Splash in the Fight Against Summer Hunger
Posted by Michael McKenna on Friday, September 2, 2011
Editor’s Note: All summer, Share Our Strength staff will be visiting summer meals sites across the country to show our work in action. This post is part of that series. To learn more about Summer Meals, visit strength.org/summer.
Our second summer meals site visit in Staten Island looked like it was the set of the Sandlot. You know the scene with Squints and the lifeguard Wendy Peffercorn? That’s right, what better place for a summer meals site than a community pool? Like libraries and parks, pools are places where kids naturally gather, which makes sense to use it as a site. While there, we spoke with the director of the Young People’s Day Camp in Brooklyn, whose campers were visiting the Staten Island pool. He said multiple times, “please thank your bosses. This program has been a huge help to our kids. Lot of parents can’t pack a lunch so when we’re traveling with the campers we can still get free lunches.”
Our day concluded with an interview with Joel Berg, executive director of our good partner The New York City Coalition Against Hunger. We touched on a lot of topics, including the need in NYC, the importance of federal nutrition programs like summer meals, and the value that working together with a multitude of partners brings in connecting kids with meals. You can see a clip from our conversation here.
RELATED LINKS:
— Learn more about Share Our Strength’s Summer Meals work
— Help Support Summer Meals Work
September 2, 2011 | 0 comment(s) | Tags: new york city, no kid hungry, staten island, summer meals
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