About 12 percent of low-income kids are getting help
Stephen Lily talks to WTAM's Colleen O'Neill(
Columbus)- Ohio is reaching about 12 percent of low-income children with summer nutrition programs, a lot less than the state could have been feeding, according to the Children's Hunger Alliance.
Spokesman Stephen Lily says, in order to get the numbers up, they need to let families know that help is available. The meals are free to qualified kids throughout the state. To find sites in your area where your kids can go and be fed call
1-800-481-6885.
To help increase awareness the group has started a campaign called "Eat Better, Do Better" and have put up billboards throughout Cleveland in some of the more needy areas.
Hunger centers are also noticing a dramatic increase in the amount of people coming in for help. Lily says, last summer some of their sites gave out up to 400 meals a day and now they're doing up to 1,600 meals which says a lot about the economy.
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