The Lorain Public Library System is ready to host the Summer time Meals Service Program for kids youthful than 18 years of age.
This system begins June 5.
Based on Anastasia Desmond-Ortiz, director of the Lorain Public Library System, this system helps guarantee youngsters at neighborhood websites, like libraries, obtain a free meal as soon as a day through the summer season.
This system will start June 5 on the Predominant Department, 351 W. Sixth St. in Lorain, and the Domonkas Department, 4125 E. Lake Highway in Sheffield Lake, and June 9 on the South Lorain Department, 2121 Homewood Drive in Lorain.
“It (this system) is obtainable on weekdays through the summer season when faculties are closed,” Diamond-Ortiz mentioned. “There isn’t any join the library lunches; the children can simply present up.”
Diamond-Ortiz mentioned the Lorain Public Library System has been part of the Summer time Meals Service Program since 2017 and has sourced meals from accomplice group, the Youngsters’s Starvation Alliance.
Based on the web site, the Youngsters’s Starvation Alliance ensures meals supplied for the summer season program include a well-rounded steadiness of pre-portioned meat or meat-alternatives, fruits or greens, bread or complete grains and milk.
“We noticed a necessity locally that was in a position to be stuffed by partnering with organizations who present lunch in the summertime to youngsters in Lorain and Sheffield Lake,” Diamond-Ortiz mentioned.
By becoming a member of the summer season meal program, she mentioned the Lorain Public Library System helps to scale back the variety of college students who depend on free faculty lunches.
The meal program has helped encourage youngsters and households to go to the library and have interaction in summer season applications, STEM actions and different library occasions, Diamond-Ortiz mentioned.
“The suggestions we now have acquired is that native households admire the library providing summer season lunch whereas additionally offering actions and a spot for kids to discover and study,” she mentioned.
For extra data, go to www.lorainpubliclibrary.org.
