Summer Food Boxes While Children Are Out of School!
Summer means vacation, outdoor time, swimming, extra time at home or maybe camp, notes Americans Helping Americans® partner in Cleveland, Georgia, Ann Fleming of Caring Hands Ministries.
"But for some families in our area summer means a very hard time," Ann told us.
The Georgia Mountain Food Bank, located in nearby Gainesville, reports that even with summer programs more than 80 percent of the children and teens who get a free breakfast and lunch during the school year do not have that help in the summer and are in need of food help.
And that's where Americans Helping Americans® and our supporters come in.
"Each year for the past four years Americans Helping Americans® has reached out to these families through Caring Hands Ministries," said Ann. "This year, Americans Helping Americans® send Caring Hands Ministries boxes of food to share with families who need extra food help and cannot go regularly to the feeding sites."
More than 180 boxes of non-perishable food items, containing enough food to feed a family of four for a week, have already been provided to families served by Caring Hands Ministries in seven northeast Georgia counties.
Although Americans Helping Americans® has provided frozen sandwiches in the past for families, we have come to learn that some families don't have refrigeration in their homes and cannot use them, even though their children are hungry.
"I gave them to a neighbor, but my girls were hungry," reported one mother after her refrigerator broke.
"This year's boxes will prevent that kind of problem and will also be better for families who may be homeless," commented Caring Hands President Charles Fleming, adding that since the food is canned and packaged it does not require refrigeration and can be used by a family any time during the month where there is a need.
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