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Let’s Give Child Hunger a Summer Vacation
Find out how
you can help
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families eagerly look
forward to the end of
the school year and the
carefree days of summer,
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warm sun, splashing and
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beaches, and gathering with
ly and friends for backyard barbe-
ques. But for more than 17 million
children the end of school can be
the end of certainty about where
and when their next meal will
come. While 21.7 million children
received free or reduced price
lunches during the 2013-2014
school year, only 2.6 million chil-
dren—12.2 percent—participated
in the Summer Food Service Pro-
gram. This huge participation gap
suggests that nearly 9 out of 10 of
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or reduced price lunches during
the school year may not be receiv-
ing the nourishment necessary for
proper physical, cognitive, and
social development during the
long summer months. Hunger has
no vacation.
The good news is that the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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vice operates the Summer Food
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these hungry children. Although
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all needy hungry children. And
there are other barriers. Summer
food programs sometimes tend to
be available at odd hours and for
short periods of time and in in-
convenient places making it chal-
lenging for children to get there,
a problem exacerbated by lack of
safe transportation to the sites.
Over the last few years, the
USDA Food and Nutrition Ser-
vice has been piloting innovative
strategies in diverse communities
across the country to help over-
come many of these barriers.
Some programs have had suc-
cess using mobile vans to provide
meals, especially helpful in rural
communities. In other communi-
ties without sites, it has allowed
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fer cards —like those used for the
Supplemental Nutrition Assis-
tance Program and the Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program
for Women, Infants and Children
— to transfer money to families so
they can
Congress also has a role to play
in ensuring that countless children
do not go hungry during the sum-
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both this year and last. Their bill
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mer nutrition programs by lower-
ing the threshold for community
eligibility from 50 percent to 40
percent of children in the area
eligible for free or reduced price
meals.
The Stop Child Summer Hun-
ger Act, introduced by Senator
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vis, would make permanent the
successful EBT demonstration
project piloted by the USDA, pro-
viding $150 EBT cards for fami-
lies for the summer for each child
eligible but without access to a
summer food site.
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lion households in 2012-13, in-
cluding 1.3 million with children,
an increase from the previous
year, had no cash income and de-
pended only on food stamps (now
called SNAP) to stave off hunger.
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some Republican leaders are try-
ing to cut SNAP when the need is
so enormous.
There is a role for all of us in
getting food to children during
the long food desert of summer
months for millions of young chil-
dren, and right now, we still have
time to take action for the coming
summer.
Find out how you can help —
or how at risk children you know
can fully participate in sites al-
ready planned for the summer.
Individuals and organizations
in communities can help serve
the meals, promote the program,
provide transportation, volun-
teer at summer food sites, and
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has a number of great resources
to help sponsors and sites get up
and running, including a “Sum-
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information on sponsors, sites,
links to state agencies, and much
more. And if you know hungry
children in your community, you
can call 1-866-3-HUNGRY or
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nearest summer feeding site.
Let us work together to give
hunger a summer vacation and
help all children have a more joy-
ful vacation.
Marian Wright Edelman is
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fense Fund.