NJDOA ASSISTING THOUSANDS WITH ITS REMARKABLE SUMMER FEEDING PROGRAM

The New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced that its department now has summer meals available at over 2,400 sites around the state this summer. With the troubling effects of COVID-19 on families and businesses alike, the USDA has granted all communities, including those that are under 50 percent eligible for free or reduced-price school meals, the cultivating opportunity to offer feeding sites to expand the program to children in the community.

Through a combination of summer food services and the school nutrition programs, the feeding program has a tremendous impact on individuals throughout New Jersey. The NJDOA’s Summer Food Service Program, currently has 161 sponsors representing 1,083 sites, and through the Seamless Summer Option, the school program has 598 sponsors representing 1,323 sites.

“One of our first priorities, when the pandemic began, was to make sure children had access to healthy meals,” Secretary Fisher said. “With the USDA’s Seamless Summer Option, along with the Summer Food Service Program, more meals are being provided to meet essential needs in this unprecedented time.”