Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas' Kids Summer Food program is gearing up to provide summer meals to children in 26 local and rural communities across northeast Kansas. Volunteer responsibilities include: Setting-up and cleaning-up of meal areas Distributing meals to children and adults Tracking meal counts Participating in activities with kids to encourage attendance Informing library [...]
Next month's 42nd Annual Ben and Betty Zarda Family Golf Classic Raffle is now open! If you are unable to join this year's event, you can still participate in our super raffle that supports Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas summer food initiatives, including our Kids Summer Food program. Prizes include an autographed Chiefs football, a [...]
Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas’ Kids Summer Food Program (KSF) may be more widely known throughout our agency for distributing and delivering free meals to children. But nutritious meals for children are available year-round through our federally-funded Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). CACFP has been part of our agency’s service offerings since the [...]
According to Feeding America, which tracks food insecurity in the U.S., the number of children facing hunger rose significantly during the pandemic – from more than 10 million in 2019 to nearly 12 million in 2020. Catholic Charities’s Kids’ Summer Food Program has been working to combat this epidemic of child hunger by feeding children [...]
1 in 6 children face hunger in Kansas. The summer months are particularly hard for those who rely on free or reduced-cost lunches during the school year. Seven years ago, Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas launched the Kids Summer Food Program to help address this issue of food insecurity. Since then, the need and the [...]
With the recent school closures, Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas has begun the Kids Summer Food Program early. Children up to 18 years of age can receive FREE sack lunches by coming to one of the locations below. All lunches will be distributed "carryout" style, respecting 6 foot social distancing. To learn [...]
Having daily access to ample, nutritious food is something many of us take for granted. We so frequently will wake up, get ourselves ready for a day of busy-ness, and actively choose to forgo breakfast because we know a filling lunch is only a few hours away, with a substantial dinner to follow. For [...]
While food and drink might be frowned upon at some libraries, it certainly wasn’t the case this summer at the Pottawatomie Wabaunsee Regional Library in St. Marys, Kansas. There the staff encouraged eating -- handing out sack lunches three days a week as part of Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas’ Summer Food Program. It was [...]
For the past three years, the staff and children at the St. Marys library have participated in the Summer Food Service Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and designed to give children access to free, nutritious meals when school is not in session. Above, Mercy McCann enjoys a juice box [...]
Originally posted on The Leaven by Joe Bollig joe.bollig@theleaven.org Summertime is a lean time at the eight Emergency Assistance Center food pantries operated by Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas. The demand for food goes up in the summer at the same time that giving drops off. KANSAS CITY, Kan. — They don’t plan [...]