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Monday, June 8, 2009

7 in 10 valley kids may not have food when schools let out


Not surprisingly, childhood hunger is worse in the east valley, where nine in 10 low-income students in the Coachella Valley Unified School District qualify for reduced-price meals.

The seven in 10 valley students qualifying for free and reduced-price meals is not the worst figure in the state, those numbers are well above the average, 53 percent.

Summer classes could offer a respite, but those free meals end with summer school.

“The worst thing that you can have is a child who's starving,” said Joanne Vilardi, chief operating officer for FIND Food Bank, which runs an independent summer feeding program.

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Posted by Claudia Rowe @ Equal Voice For Families at 10:29 AM

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