STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Households on Staten Island can obtain a free, nutritious meal on daily basis for every of their kids courtesy of a new summer meals food truck pilot program that runs via the tip of subsequent week.
The New York Metropolis Division of Schooling‘s summer time meals meals truck program gives free meals to anybody ages 18 and youthful through the summer time to interchange the meals they might be receiving in school through the tutorial yr.
The truck, which debuted on Monday, is stationed on Victory Boulevard, adjoining to the Clove Lakes Park basketball courts, the place it’s going to stay via Friday, Aug. 29.
Kids who go to the truck can obtain a free meal seven days per week — Monday via Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on weekends, from 10 a.m. to three p.m.
The menu, which can be viewed on the NYC Schools website, consists of day by day choices, like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, cheese sandwiches and hummus grab-and-go packs, in addition to varied different choices that rotate every day, like chipotle rooster wraps, rooster salad hoagies and falafel grab-and-go salads.
The meals truck, which has made its solution to Staten Island for the primary time following years of exclusion from the city-run initiative, is being piloted for a restricted time, with starvation advocates stressing the significance of continued advocacy and participation to make sure that this system’s presence on Staten Island is made everlasting.
“That is right here for 11 days from Aug. 18 to Aug. 29, however within the different boroughs it’s there for eight weeks. So we wish to flip this from a pilot program into a whole eight-week program, so we’d like assist and for individuals to return out and assist it and make the most of the providers,” stated Heather Butts, who serves as chair of the Staten Island Starvation Activity Drive and co-founder and government director of H.E.A.L.T.H. for Youths.
The Free Summer time Meals program serves as an important lifeline to 1000’s of New York Metropolis households, as rising grocery prices are making it more and more tough for folks to offer wholesome, nutritious meals.
A recent poll performed by No Child Hungry discovered that 86% of New Yorkers really feel as if the price of meals is rising quicker than their revenue, and 53% stated their debt has elevated prior to now yr on account of the price of meals.
Greater than half of all respondents, 52%, stated their bodily well being has suffered on account of the price of meals, whereas almost two-thirds, 63%, stated their psychological well being has suffered.
Along with the meals truck stationed at Clove Lakes Park, these on the lookout for free summer time meals can go to one of many following 18 brick-and-mortar locations throughout the borough.
- CSI Excessive Faculty for Worldwide Research, New Springville — 100 Essex Drive
- Curtis Excessive Faculty, St. George —105 Hamilton Ave.
- Bernstein Intermediate Faculty (I.S. 7), Huguenot — 1270 Huguenot Ave.
- Prall Intermediate Faculty (I.S. 27), West Brighton — 11 Clove Lake Place
- Totten Intermediate Faculty (I.S. 34), Tottenville — 528 Academy Ave.
- Dreyfus Intermediate Faculty (I.S. 49), Stapleton — 101 Warren St.
- Markham Intermediate Faculty (I.S. 51), Graniteville — 80 Willowbrook Rd.
- Egbert Intermediate Faculty (I.S. 2), Midland Seashore — 333 Midland Ave.
- PS 18, West New Brighton— 221 Broadway
- PS 23, Richmond — 30 Natick St.
- PS 56, Rossville — 250 Kramer Ave.
- PS/I.S. 48, Harmony —1050 Targee St.
- The Michael J. Petrides Faculty, Sunnyside — 715 Ocean Terrace
- The Waverly Academy of Empowered Learners, Stapleton — 45 Waverly Place
- Faber Pool, Elm Park — Richmond Terrace and Faber Avenue
- Lyons Pool, Tompkinsville — Pier 6 and Victory Boulevard
- West Brighton Pool, West Brighton (Lunch solely from 1 to 4 p.m.) — Henderson Avenue, between Broadway and Chappel Avenue
- Tottenville Pool, Tottenville — Hylan Boulevard and Joline Avenue
No Child Hungry and the Free Summer time Meals program are simply a few of the many organizations and initiatives working to fight starvation on Staten Island, a significant challenge within the borough highlighted in final yr’s Advance/SILive.com sequence, Health and Hunger on Staten Island, which documented excessive charges of meals insecurity, related well being dangers and points in accessing recent produce.
Households can discover a Free Summer time Meals website close to them by calling 311 or visiting the program’s website.
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