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Burke County School Nutrition Program marks 20 years of summer meals for kids
BURKE COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF)- The Burke County School Nutrition Program is once again offering food to kids ages 18 and under.
It's the 20th year this program has been feeding kids.
Burke County Public Schools work to ensure kids get food this summer. There are days when they show up to work very early in the morning.
'Mondays, Wednesdays, the days we pack the boxes. I mean, we make the boxes and put them nonperishable stuff in as much as we can if it's available, available at that time. But on Tuesdays and Thursdays, it's crunch time, because we get up early, I'm here for 4:30 sometime, 3:45 trying to make sure that we get these boxes packed and get these get them loaded onto the busses on Tuesday and Thursday,' said Malinda Mitchell, Burke County Middle School nutrition manager.
They do this to make sure kids have a meal daily.
'A lot of the parents work and a lot of the kids be at home. You know, sometimes basically with these boxes, they get like a five day supply and that helps the parents out and it helps the kids out as well, because they get a good nutritious meal out every day when they're home and lunch, all day, every day.'
And she says how excited the kids are when they get the boxes.
'They love the food. They love the boxes, especially with the little one where they get their box and open up and see all the stuff and they just like, they getting a present for Christmas because they see all the food arranged in the box and knowing that they will have food to eat.'
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