Partners needed for Summer Food Service Program in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – The Louisiana Department of Education and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry seek partners for the Summer Food Service Program.
The SFSP is a collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture, which funds the program.
LDAF said the program “helps ensure that children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session.” Partners run summer meal sites all over the state. LDAF said they become part of a network of safe and supervised settings.
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“The LDOE approves the partner organizations, and the LDAF stores and distributes the food allocated by the USDA,” LDAF said.
“Without this program, many children will go hungry this summer, and that’s the bottom line,” said Commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Strain, DVM. “It’s important that we start identifying partner organizations now so that we don’t have a time gap where these children don’t have access to a meal when schools let out for the summer. The school systems play a part, and if the schools choose not to do it, then other government entities in the parish can do it. If they choose not to do it, then the private nonprofits can do it.”
If you want to be a partner, you must finish this application. The deadline is Friday, May 17.
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