Tag: summer
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2024 Summer EBT for KY families to help against childhood hunger
June 12, 2024 – The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (SEBT) is a U.S. federal assistance program designed to address the issue of food insecurity among students during the summer months. This program will help provide grocery benefits to eligible families with school aged children. Families will receive $120 per child, loaded onto the participating family’s…
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Empowering Neighbors: Eryañiz’s Story
Eryañiz is a Puerto Rican American teen enrolled in an after-school mentorship program offered by our agency partner, Hope Academy for Kids, and is fluent in both English and Spanish. Eryañiz volunteered as a translator at one of our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Mobile Food Pantries, ensuring that our neighbors were able to get the…
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FAKH BackPack program expands to help Kentucky kids facing hunger
n the coming weeks, school will begin across Kentucky’s Heartland. The free school meals students depend on are no longer available, unless their family qualifies through a lengthy application process which hinges on their income. If a family is above the income requirements, then they will have to pay full or reduced price for school…
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Without school meals for all, Kentucky children face hunger this summer.
Over the next three months, thousands of children in Kentucky will spend their Summer worried, irritated, and sad all because of one thing – hunger. School administrators, like Leah Feagin, are anxious for the children that depend on school meals year-round. The following Op-Ed, written by Feagin, demonstrates the urgency with which we must address…