Kids Cafe Healthy Meals Program
The types of community disadvantage that Brockton and Taunton face can have a profound negative impact on our children in the areas of health, learning, and safety. Compounding this are low-income, urban settings where fast food is cheap and readily available, with few grocery stores and restaurants offering healthy foods.
50% of our members live in a single-parent home and 60% are part of households which earn $40,000 or less per year. Many Brockton and Taunton families struggle to put food on the table, gain steady employment, or afford key essentials. As such, our
Kids Cafe Healthy Meals Program
is one of the most essential components of these services provided to Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South families.
We provide nutritious meals to our youth each evening during the academic year, and both breakfast and lunch during the summer months to ensure that no member who wishes to eat at our Clubs leaves hungry. Each day we serve meals to nearly 400 of our members; totaling more than 7,500 meals served per month and more than 100,000 meals served annually. In addition to meal service, we work to teach our members how to choose healthy foods when they are not at their Club and to make the connection between eating well and feeling well and healthy. We also aim to eliminate the anxiety that comes with never knowing where one’s next meal will come from. By removing this constant worry from the minds of our members, we can help them better apply their efforts in school, and give them the freedom to just be kids.