A USDA program will provide free meals this summer for qualifying children of the Shawano School District.
The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is administered by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, provides nutritious meals to children during the summer, when free and reduced-price school meals are unavailable.
Free meals will be available to eligible children 18 and younger. Persons older than 18 who are determined by a state or local public educational agency to be mentally or physically disabled and who also participate in a public or private nonprofit school program during the regular school year may receive free meals as well.
Free breakfasts will be served from 7:45-9 a.m. and free lunches from 10:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. every day during summer school at Hillcrest Primary School and Shawano Community High School. Summer school runs from June 16 to July 18.
Meals are provided to eligible children regardless of race, color, national origin, age, gender or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of meal service.
“This program fills a void created when school breakfast and lunches are not available,” said Sarah Moesch, food service director, Taher, Inc., for the Shawano School District. “Helping parents meet the nutritional needs of their children is the strength of this program.”
For more information, call 715-526-2175, ext. 8250.