(Image source from: Atlanta Parent Magazine)

Atlanta has launched annual Summer Food Program that serves meals to unmerited children in Atlanta community. The program has been collaborated between the Mayor's Office of Human Service and Bright from the Start: Georgia's Department of Early Care and Learning.

The food program offers free meals during the period of summer while educational institutions are closed serving an average of 8,703 meals every day in Atlanta community each summer in whole more than 249,313 meals served by the extremity of summer.

The program runs through July 27.

Mobile Feeding Bus will as well be included in the Summer Food Program that travels throughout the city supplying meals to children at 12 libraries and five housing complexes.

The mobile bus service will aid to render 5,000 additional meals this summer.

Mayor Bottoms said, "Many of our children go hungry during the summer months when school-provided lunches are unavailable."

"The Summer Food Program provides low-income families a hand up, ensuring our most vulnerable children will receive a healthy meal," he added.

To organize the Summer Food Program, the city of Atlanta has partnered with Bright from the beginning since 1975. Meals will be supplied to churches, camps, recreation centers and non-profit organizations.

The United States Department of Agriculture for this summer plans to serve more than 200 million free meals to children under 18 years of age at sanctioned Summer Food Program sites.

By Sowmya Sangam