COMBATING SUMMER HUNGER
Everyone needs to eat and healthy food options should be available year round. Special Needs Disability Center Inc, is on the front-lines of the fight against hunger in Dallas with our Summer Meals Program!
We provide food and smiles, free of charge to the areas we serve through partnership with our sponsors. Nutritious meals are delivered at each community's schedule during the breakfast and lunch hour. Participating communities, schools, churches,and programs will receive fliers as well. We are committed to providing resources and food to the residents Dallas County!
We provide food and smiles, free of charge to the areas we serve through partnership with our sponsors. Nutritious meals are delivered at each community's schedule during the breakfast and lunch hour. Participating communities, schools, churches,and programs will receive fliers as well. We are committed to providing resources and food to the residents Dallas County!
FACT ABOUT Nutrition & kids
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Missing meals and experiencing hunger impair children's overall development and achievement.
Studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Pediatrics, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry document the negative effects of hunger on children’s academic performance and behavior in school. Hungry children are more likely to have lower math and reading scores. They are also are more likely to repeat a grade, come to school late, or miss it entirely. To learn more about how hunger effects children's development, click here. 6 out of 7 children don't get the summer meals they need.
Millions of children rely heavily on school for regular and nutritious meals. During the summer, those meals stop. With up to 20% of Dallas, Texas actively functioning as a food desert, there's very little chance that children will be able to acquire healthy foods or nutritious options for themselves. Food desert also impede many parents from finding healthy nutrition for their children as well. To learn more about food deserts in Dallas, click here. 43% of low income families find it more difficult to make ends meet during the summer.
The ability to provide children with healthy food year round costs money. 22.9% of Dallas citizens live in poverty with 44.14% of those citizens living in food deserts. Meaning 1 out of every 4.6 people in Dallas live in poverty and don't have adequate resources or access to healthy foods. To learn more about Dallas poverty and it's effects, click here. |
HOW TO HELP
Are you interested in learning more about Special Needs Disability Center, Inc.'s goal of feed children during the summer? Do you have big ideas or want to help? Are you interested in partnering with this program? Do you want to donate money or supplies to the Summer Meals Program? Use the button below to send us a message using the subject line: SUMMER MEALS and we'll contact you as soon as possible! We'd love to hear from you!
BRING SNDC SUMMER meals program
TO YOUR COMMUNITY
Does your community need help with nutritious summer meals? Connect with us TODAY to bring SNDC to your community!
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