By Bill Zeeble, KERA News
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Dallas, TX – For the first time 2,000 low-income children will continue receiving free food over the weekends, thanks to a program from the city of Fort Worth and the Tarrant Area Food Bank.
With school out for the summer, Fort Worth area children who qualify for free and reduced school lunches can get food for the weekend. That's thanks to the SummerPacks for Kids program at 13 of Fort Worth's Summer nutrition sites. The packs contain items like breakfast bars, boxed juice, peanut butter, crackers, and canned meat.
Andrea Helms, with the Tarrant Area Food Bank, wishes more children could be reached.
Helms: There's many more who could be fed. If we had trucks and manpower we would love to feed every kid who came to the summer nutrition sites.
Most in the program eat breakfast and lunch at school through the National School Lunch Program.