No Summer Vacation for Hunger

Time away from school during summer months brings an end to school-funded meal programs. These programs provide children with healthy, filling meals that they have come to rely.  Children experience hunger over summer months because their families lack the ability and resources to make up the deficit from missing these school-provided breakfasts and lunches. The Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland is working to fill this void and we need your help to feed these hungry children.

Nelly lives at home with her grandma and attends school in Cleveland. During the school year, she is provided breakfast and lunch, but in the summer her grandma must somehow supply these extra meals for her. Nelly’s grandmother has been coming to the Hunger Network on-and-off since 2006, ever since a heart-attack left her disabled and unable to work. The Network food pantry gives her nutritious emergency food to help keep them from being hungry.

Throughout the summer, Nelly volunteers at the Redeemer Crisis Center which is part of the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland. Nelly chooses to spend her time at Redeemer to stay safe and off of the streets; she doesn't want to be negatively influenced by her peers.  Her grandmother is so thankful that Nelly volunteers at the center because she thinks it helps her stay focused and teaches her how to work with different kinds of people. Nelly has big goals for her future; she dreams of one day being a forensic scientist.

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