PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Sinclair is partnering with Feeding America for its Summer Hunger Relief Campaign to help children and families facing food insecurity.<\/p>\n
While millions of children across the country rely on free school meals during the school year, local leaders said the need doesn\u2019t disappear when summer break begins.<\/p>\n
The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank works with school districts and community organizations across our area to provide free summer meals for children.<\/p>\n
Families can access meal sites through schools, libraries and other community partners, with some locations offering grab-and-go options.<\/p>\n
The food bank also provides funding and resources to help those programs operate throughout the summer months.<\/p>\n
The food bank manager of Child Nutrition Programs in our coverage area said that, in the Greater Johnstown School District alone, there are nearly 12 sites that offer summer meals.<\/p>\n
Manager Chelsey Novak, said, \u201cThe food and security rate for children is one in five in this area, and, so, you might not understand what’s going on in a family, but I think it’s really important to make sure that kids are fed. Having those quality meals throughout the summer can really help them to start the next school year off well and be able to continue to learn and grow and thrive, and, so, any donations are welcome to be able to support these programs so that kids can get meals throughout the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local families can find summer meal sites by searching their zip code through the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.<\/p>\n
Information about Sinclair\u2019s Summer Hunger Relief Campaign can also be found on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Sinclair is partnering with Feeding America for its Summer Hunger Relief Campaign to help children…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-246126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}