For the third year in a row, a program in Dallas is offering free meals for the summer to low-income families with children.
Crossroads Community Services is hosting its summer feeding program to help provide food to low-income families with children. For the third year, families can pick up free meals once a month.
Families do not have to enroll in advance to receive meals. Any child between the ages of 4-18 is eligible to receive a box at Crossroads, located at 4500 South Cockrell Hill Road in Dallas.Each family will receive a 20-pound box of food which includes breakfast, lunch, and snacks for each child. Each box has approximately 16-17 meals.
"Students are getting that food the breakfast, lunch and snacks during school hours, but then being out of school they don’t have that. That’s where we step in at," said Sean Alexander, vice president of community engagement. "The biggest impact is just showing how we can come in and feel this void that they’re missing. Again, they’re not getting the breakfast and lunch that they usually get from school. So, by us and our partners contribute to this, our contributions show them that we’re here and we have their back."
Crossroads Community Services and its partners, Amazon Snap and The Rees-Jones Foundation, plan to serve 3,500 students this summer.
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