May 16, 2018
Partner Spotlight: Eisenberg Elementary School
Attending school and thriving does not come easy for many Delaware children, especially children living in poverty. For thousands of children, excelling in school is the least of their worries when home life is less than ideal. Many of our children are sleeping on floors in motels, living in households destroyed by opioid addiction, taking…
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March 20, 2018
Celebrating CACFP at Heritage Elementary
Last week was National CACFP Week! What’s CACFP? It’s the Child and Adult Care Food Program. We are proud to serve as a sponsor for this important USDA-funded/Delaware Department of Education-administered program. As a sponsor, we prepare thousands of meals and snacks each week for sites throughout Delaware that serve children in after-school programs. Last week we…
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February 7, 2018
Help us help hungry Delaware kids
Let’s call her Miranda. She’s in 6th grade. She has three younger brothers. Her parents both work, but their paychecks often don’t stretch far enough to cover the cost of rent, utilities, transportation – even to go to work, child care, and food. She is an example of the nearly one in five children in…
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November 8, 2017
Backpacks help students get through the weekend; kids welcome the meals
Meghan Blades, school counselor at North Georgetown Elementary School, says backpacks provided for her students through the Food Bank of Delaware are a real lifeline. Every Friday, she personally distributes 95 backpacks to students in grades kindergarten through 5th grade. The school has approximately 830 students, and many of them live with food insecurity. Blades…
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August 3, 2017
Grab and Go program helps feed kids throughout the summer
When the white Food Bank of Delaware van stops next to the neighborhood pool in High Point Mobile Home Community, children rush out – some with parents – to meet it. Tonya, our driver, opens the sliding door to display stacks of coolers stocked with milk, water and a bagged meal. The children start to…
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July 31, 2017
Grab and Go meals at the Hudson State Service Center
Monday through Friday, parents visiting the Hudson State Service Center in Newark have the opportunity to pick up free breakfast and lunch meals for their children thanks to the Food Bank’s Grab and Go program. Meals are available starting at 11:00 a.m. and are served until 11:30 a.m. Driver George Lunski brings coolers full of…
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June 22, 2017
Grab and Go offers free summer meal flexibility
School’s out for summer! For many kids, summer means trips to the beach and pool, but for other kids it’s a time of uncertainty. Uncertainty about where their next meal will come from. When school ends for the year, so does access to free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch programs. To help fill the meal…
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June 21, 2017
Food Bank of Delaware releases second edition of Breakfast First: A Statewide School Breakfast Report
The Food Bank of Delaware released the second edition of Breakfast First: A Statewide School Breakfast Report yesterday afternoon at Legislative Hall. Delaware senators and representatives were among the first to review the report. The second edition of the report focuses on House Bill 408, passed by the 148th Delaware General Assembly and signed into…
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June 1, 2017
School’s new pantry gets positive response from parents, teachers
At the Food Bank of Delaware, we recognize that nearly one in five Delaware children are food insecure. With the help of our community partners and volunteers, we offer food directly to at-risk children – and their families – through a variety of programs. Some of those programs operate through partnerships with schools. For example,…
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May 10, 2017
Food insecurity in kids impacts school performance, behavior, experts say
Hunger is more than missing a meal, and the psychological, emotional, social impact on children can have a lasting negative effect, according to experts who spoke at last month’s “Coming Together: A Community Response to Hunger” conference hosted by the Food Bank of Delaware and Brae’s Brown Bags. The Food Bank of Delaware offers several…
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