Millions of children will miss healthy school meals when pandemic relief expires
Nutritionist Shaunté Fields (middle) and bus driver Treva White (behind Fields, on the bus) ship meals to kids and their households in Seattle. When faculties closed due to COVID-19, Seattle Public Faculties started distributing breakfast and lunch to college students via a community of 26 faculty websites and 43 bus routes 5 days per week. (Karen Ducey/Getty Pictures)
When faculties pivoted to digital studying early within the pandemic, the National School Lunch Program was thrown into chaos. Tens of millions of youngsters depend on faculty meals to maintain starvation at bay, so faculty vitamin administrators scrambled to undertake new, inventive methods to distribute meals to households. A few of these adjustments had been enhancements on the established order, they are saying.
