Fresno Unified offering free meals during winter break

One by one, workers connected the assembly enactment were engaged packaging meals for Fresno Unified students connected Tuesday.

The schoolhouse territory precocious announced it volition connection meals to children during the wintertime break.

"We cognize that adjacent though our students are connected vacation, they mightiness person entree to food, truthful we privation to marque definite they inactive person nutrient during this time. And due to the fact that it is simply a hard clip sometimes for families," said Fresno Unified Director of Nutrition Services, Amanda Harvey.

With the objection of January 1st, the District volition connection escaped meals starting December 26th to January 10th from 11:30 americium to 12:30 p.m. astatine 7 antithetic locations.

Harvey said Hoover, McLane, Sunnyside and Fresno High Schools volition beryllium unfastened during those times to connection a escaped meal.

As good arsenic DeWolf High, Farber Educational Campus and Phoenix Secondary Academy.

Harvey said a kid up to 18 years-old doesn't person to beryllium enrolled successful a Fresno Unified schoolhouse to get entree to a escaped meal.

"They conscionable spell successful and accidental they privation a meal, and they should get a grin from our staff, and they get a meal. They bash request to devour the repast connected campus, so, they're not drawback and go, they bash person to beryllium them determination and the kid has to beryllium present," said Harvey.

Harvey said the territory volition service much than 15,000 meals during the vacation break, which is astir 200 meals a time astatine each site.

She adds the meals volition beryllium akin options served during the regular schoolhouse year.

"There is simply a affable look that volition beryllium determination to service their meals. It is hard sometimes, sometimes being distant from schoolhouse is hard for our children. So, this does springiness them a safe, lukewarm spot during the winter," said Harvey.

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