How You Helped Nourish Children All Summer Long

When school doors close for summer, many children lose reliable meals. For families already stretching food budgets, the end of the school year can mean the end of daily breakfasts and lunches that children depend on. Summer quickly becomes one of the hardest times to keep kids nourished.

Last summer, you helped close that gap in Houma by supporting a partnership between Second Harvest and the Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center. Inside the pediatric center, families arriving for checkups found something more than medical care. They found healthy food that their children could take with them.

From June through July, nearly 1,000 children visiting the pediatric clinic received nutritious snack bags. Food became part of an existing routine, not another obligation to manage.

As summer ended, the partnership continued. At the medical center’s back-to-school event, Second Harvest provided fresh produce to about 100 families. Each child received a box filled with apples, bananas, grapes, tomatoes and carrots.

Those foods helped families start the school year with something steady and nutritious at home.

This was the first year of this type of initiative. Because of you, it worked.

Right now, while summer hunger continues to affect children across our communities, your support helps ensure that kids can focus on healing, growing, and learning.

Together, we can keep showing up in the places families already trust, with food that meets real needs, right when it matters most!