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Accomack County to deliver home meal boxes again this summer through Food for Good partnership
Summary
The school division will ship shelf-stable meal boxes to qualifying households under a revived home-delivery model. The program expanded after a pilot and will again use Food for Good, PepsiCo and local partners; sign-ups require a permission slip by April 25.
Accomack County Public Schools will again ship home-delivered summer meal boxes to households with children 18 and younger under a partnership with Food for Good and PepsiCo, the nutrition presenter told the school board at its April 15 meeting.
The program is intended to reach families for whom transportation and work schedules make on-site summer meal pickup impractical. "When schools close for summer, millions of children lose access to their daily school meal program," the presenter said while describing the program and partners. He told the board the district moved from a poor turnout for school-site pick-up toward a direct-delivery model and reported substantially higher reach after the change.
Under the division's plan, each shipment will contain 10 days' worth of breakfasts and lunches — a total of 20 meals per shipment — and the division will schedule multiple…
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