Overview
- The Summer Lunch Program is underway and runs through the end of July, and organizers are actively recruiting volunteers and donations to keep distribution sites operating.
- Last summer the program served more than 500,000 meals to children across metro Atlanta, a scale leaders say they hope to equal or exceed this year.
- FOX 5 filmed volunteers packing meal kits Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church in Marietta as part of a wider push to staff packing and delivery events.
- MUST Ministries serves breakfast and lunch in eight counties — Bartow, Cobb, Cherokee, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding, Pickens and Gwinnett — through partnerships with churches, schools and corporations.
- Program leaders say rising food costs have increased the per‑child summer feeding bill from about $100 to roughly $150, so the drive is soliciting monetary gifts, food donations and items from an Amazon wishlist to avoid turning any child away.