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Free Food For Kids In Cantonment: Here’s How To Help Or Receive Help
March 16, 2020
The Cantonment community is coming together to help make sure children have something to eat during the school closures due to both spring break and COVID-19.
The Cantonment Improvement Committee will be collecting packaged food on Monday from 3-6 p.m. at Carver Park. The items will then be assembled by volunteers.
The food will distributed to school-aged children on Tuesday, March 17 from 1 p.m. until the food is gone at Carver Park. It will be bagged and distributed in a drive-thru with no need to get out of the car. Drivers will receive one bag for each child.
“My goal is to make sure that every child has something to eat for at least two weeks,” CIC’s Mary Holley-Lewis said.
If you have food items to donate but can’t make it Monday, call (850) 346-2797 for pick up. Families that can’t make Tuesday’s giveaway can also call the number to make arrangements to meet if there is anything remaining after Tuesday’s event.
“We e just want to make sure that these babies get fed over the break,” Holley-Lewis said. “No child should ever go hungry.”
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8 Responses to “Free Food For Kids In Cantonment: Here’s How To Help Or Receive Help”
Carver Park 208 Webb St
Individual serving items. Mac and cheese, chef boyardee, chips, juice, granola bars, anything a student could open and eat with little assistance. Fresh fruit. Carver park is off Muscogee Road in Cantonment. Thank you for your willingness to help.
They are looking for any food items that can be easily prepared or microwaved. Kid friendly food (spaghetti-o’s, goldfish, nutrigrain bars, etc.). Thank you to everyone willing to help!
Thank you Ms. Lewis!!! God bless you, all of the volunteers, and children!!!
Yes! I also would like to donate items, what is needed?
Please give a list of what items you would like donated. In agreement with Sharon above. It is very heartbreaking to think of any child in our community going hungry.
Where is Carver Park?
What foods would you like to be donated? This breaks my heart to think we have hungry children in our community, or in any community.