Lisa Hyde-Hill, Board Chair of Childhood Food Solutions (CFS), is walking 100 miles to Columbus (April 23 to 26) to raise $125,000, through pledges, to provide food for 2,500 low-income children during summer vacation.
When children of low-income families are not in school, they often get nothing to eat creating "gaps" in their nutritional intake. CFS's mission is to fill these "food gaps." Summer vacation creates the largest gap (see chart) - 84 days without school lunch.
A pledge of just 50 cents a mile provides food for one child all summer long.
Last month, CFS raised $20,000 to provide Spring Break Food Sacks to the same 2,500 local children.
What does CFS do? We place food into the hands of children. We do this in a special way by partnering with neighborhood organizations to deliver food sacks to children on the streets where they live.
CFS started with the neighborhoods around one school. We have delivered food to the children of Roll Hill Academy for 2 years. That food has helped Roll Hill achieve a tremendous 115% increase in reading and math proficiency.
You can donate here, or pledge by email to tony@childhoodfoodsolutions.org or send a check to Childhood Food Solutions,
2573 St. Leo Place,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45225. 93% of donations are spent on food.
Childhood Food Solutions is a Cincinnati nonprofit organization. We use academic proficiency as our success indicator for reaching children with food. We can help 2,500 children do better in school by providing food this summer.
We want to continue to develop and prove our methods - and encourage others to attack childhood hunger in their communities. We believe that we are developing methods that can lead to the defeat of childhood hunger in the U.S. by 2015.
Major funding for our Winter Break and Spring Break Food Sacks was
provided by The Charles H. Dater Foundation which specializes in
funding projects that benefit children in the Greater Cincinnati
region.
