Greensboro News & Record The Salvation Army of High Point’s social services team recently attended the 2018 North Carolina Child Hunger Leaders Conference, sponsored by No Kid Hungry North Carolina. The one-day conference focused on dealing with childhood hunger for school-age children, especially during the summer, when school is out. The Salvation Army’s social services […]
Salisbury Post By Rebecca Rider SALISBURY — Christmas came early to a dozen Rowan County neighborhoods. Early Thursday morning, buses full of singing, Santa-hatted educators pulled into some of the county’s most in-need communities to deliver toys and food. Students thronged the buses, eagerly pointing out which toy they’d like for Christmas, or joined along […]
New Bern Sun Journal COVE CITY — U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones walked around the Adelphia CDC Inc. site Wednesday talking with volunteers about their new program to provide children with a lunch six days a week while school is in recess for the summer. Jones was on his annual August tour of District 3 […]
WCTI 12 COVE CITY, Craven County – A summer food program is helping feed children in eastern North Carolina. Rep. Walter Jones made a pit stop at Bryant Chapel AME Zion Church in Cove City on Wednesday, which is one of four sites in Craven County where children can get free meals and enjoy afternoon […]
Jessica Soldavini, MPH, RD, LDN, Graduate Researcher with No Kid Hungry NC, has two new abstracts in the July-August, 2017 supplement of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Both focus on her child nutrition work in Orange County, NC, during summer 2016. She presented them in poster abstract form earlier this month at the […]
NoKidHungry.org By Riya Rahman Coordinator, Youth Engagement July 21, 2017 Name: Sarah Fatima Where do you go to school? University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Where are you working? Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina & Department of Public Instruction What’s your favorite part about being a Youth Ambassador? I love being able to interact […]
Chapelboro This week’s Hometown Hero is Emma Jenkins-Sullivan, Program Coordinator for Food for the Summer. The Food for the Summer program is dedicated to providing local children with lunches during the summer months. Last year, the Food for the Summer program provided 48,000 lunches to children in the community who rely on school lunches for their […]
Chapelboro Food for the Summer is well into its second year of providing lunches for children in need in the community and according to new program coordinator Emma Jenkins-Sullivan, the program has seen growth in outreach and involvement. “Last year we had over 650 volunteers come out from the community,” said Jenkins-Sullivan, “and we’re hoping […]
Rocky Mount Telegram By AMELIA HARPER Staff Writer Monday, June 26, 2017 Though summer may mean a break from school for most kids, for many children in the Twin Counties, it also means a less-welcome break from a reliable food source. In Edgecombe County alone, more than 5,500 children depend on the schools to provide […]
Rocky Mount Telegram From Contributed Reports Friday, June 23, 2017 Edgecombe County Public Schools is working to make sure that no children in Edgecombe County go hungry when school is closed this summer. More than 5,500 children a day in Edgecombe County receive free meals during the school year, but many of these children do […]