Lincolnshire working with the
Community Food Bank of Fortwayne
has an exciting program serving needy children.
The KidsCafe's mission is to feed children at-risk of hunger.
The Kids Cafe will provide children with a hot and healthy meal served in a family-style
environment.
Kids Cafe' is a program of America's Second Harvest, a national network of nearly 200 regional
food banks. The Community FoodBank of Fort Wayne has opened Kids Cafes throughout the city.
One of the saddest truths about hunger is the number of children who do not have enough to eat.
Statistics show that kids make up more than half of the hunger population.
To combat this problem, the Foodbank has implemented a program entitled Kids Cafe to provide
meals to needy children in an environment that is safe, accessible and convenient.
Kids Cafe (National)
is the nation's largest charitable meal service and nutrition education program exclusively for needy children. Kids Cafe is a program of America's Second Harvest, the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. There are nearly 200 Kids Cafe sites operating through the efforts of 55 America's Second Harvest food banks in 21 states.
By example and education focusing on wholesome meals, the goal of Kids Cafe is to feed and train today's needy children to enable them to become self-sufficient adults of the future.
In 1989, two young brothers were discovered late one night in the kitchen of a housing project community center in Savannah, Georgia. The older brother was giving the younger child fruit and milk. Presented with this situation of children in need, the Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia opened the first kitchen in the nation to feed needy children exclusively on June 17, 1989.
According to the America's Second Harvest research study, Hunger 1997: The Faces & Facts, eight million children in the United States suffer every day from the debilitating effects of chronic hunger. In fact, of all the 26 million needy Americans assisted by the America's Second Harvest network each year, 38 percent are children under the age of 18.
For more information regarding Kids Cafe national, see
America's Second Harvest.
