Here's how you can help hungry kids when school's out for summer

Many American kids define summer as a welcome relief from homework and classroom routines. But for the 20 million of them enrolled in the free and reduced-price school lunch programs in our country, summer can also mean a time of food insecurity. They spend their summer worrying about whether they will eat that day.

The Food Research and Action Center's (FRAC) newly-released 2018 Summer Nutrition Status Report entitled "Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation" finds that only a little over 3 million of those 20 million children from low-income homes were served through summer food programs across the nation in July of 2017. That means just 15 of every 100 low-income children had their needs met last summer while they were on school vacation.

https://www.today.com/parents/how-help-hungry-food-insecure-children-during-summer-t132725