SAN ANGELO

The San Angelo office of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty exists to empower San Angelo-area residents to gain equal access to healthy food.

The Kids Eat Free program provides free lunches to children in need during July and August when school is not in session. Kids Eat FREE began in 2010 in order to fill the gap that occurs after meals are available during summer school and before school begins again in the fall. With more than 60% of all students in San Angelo ISD receiving free or reduced meal benefits, we were concerned about how those children were going to have enough to eat during that summer gap period so Kids Eat Free was born.

That gap is still present today. In our own community, 1 in 4 families with children have not had enough money to buy food at times in the past 12 months. The Kids Eat Free program is helping to meet that need with the help of many churches, organizations and individuals. As of the summer of 2019, the Kids Eat Free program has provided a total of 178,317 meals to children over the past decade. In addition, they have provided 35,302 meals to hungry parents or caregivers who have accompanied the children, believing that if the child is hungry, the parent is also hungry.

Learn More About Our Work

   

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Community Resources

• Hunger and Poverty Solutions for the Faith-Based Community
• San Angelo Pocket Resource Guide: A list of community resources that is printable and foldable down to the size of a credit card! Print double-sided for best results.
• Toolkit for Privately Funded Summer Meal Programs: A guide for churches or other community-based organizations looking to organize a summer meal program to provide nutritious meals for children in need.

 

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Meet Our Staff

Mary Herbert
Regional Director
Mary_Herbert@baylor.edu

Betty Teston
Child Hunger Outreach Specialist
Betty_Teston@baylor.edu

Jen Stephenson
HFCC AmeriCorps VISTA
jen_stephenson@baylor.edu