During the normal school year many children qualify for the free breakfast and lunch program and are able to receive both breakfast and lunch while at school. However, once the Summer is here they do not get that benefit and their families may struggle to provide those additional meals at home.

Promises provides that additional food. The program is called Kids Eat Free (KEF) and each family is provided a bag for the household and each school aged child is provided a bag full of groceries that they can prepare themselves to get both breakfast and lunch for a week. Our program is each Wednesday, from June 12th through August the 7th; between noon and 1:30pm. This is a drive through event so that parents could do this while on their lunch hour. They are provided with a card to show how many children they have that qualify and once they drive through our volunteers will place the appropriate number of bags in their car. 

This program takes a very large amount of food, and we welcome all who would like to help. You can use the list attached that shows what we need and then drop them off at Promises any day Monday through Thursday, between 9am and 2:45pm. We take donations up until July. 

It is awesome to see the children and how excited they get when handed their own bag of food to eat for the week. It is as much a blessing to us as it is to the families. Mothers tell us all the time I do not know what we would do during the Summer if not for this program.