Patti McNaney, associate director of the Hamilton Research and Social Planning Council (SPRC), said that between May and September, boxes full of nutritious food were delivered to food banks to deliver to families.
“It was called a friends box initiative . . . that families with school-age children were receiving other food allocated to them through the food bank,” McNaney told CBC News.
“The purpose [was] for students to be able to get the same nutritious snacks and foods during the school day to learn.
Hamilton Tastebuds Student Nutrition Collaborative has partnered with seven local food banks/emergency food systems and MZ Foods, one of the food vendors in the student nutrition program, as a component of this initiative.
Prepackaged Buddy Box weekly orders or bulk food delivered to food banks and distributed to families.
Funding for this initiative was provided through the Breakfast Club of Canada’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund and the Department of Child Services, Community and Social Services.
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McNaney said there are now other tactics to succeed among young people and young people who paint from home through partnerships and donations.
“More than 80% of students have returned to the classroom and some other cohort can return after Thanksgiving, so we’ll look for tactics for those who don’t come back after that,” McNaney said.
“We were collaborating with food banks until [two weeks ago] and now we are looking for new tactics to do so because most children have returned to school.
Last year, food was delivered to 30,000 schoolchildren every day, McNaney said.
Not without delay is transparent how much food is being delivered lately, but McNaney said the numbers have probably dropped because the systems are just getting started.
Meanwhile, McNaney stated that the systems had to be changed due to the new protection and fitness protocols due to COVID-19.
“There is no food preparation left in place, so the systems have moved to a style of prepackaged food that is taken to the studio rooms in containers and the same schoolchildren with the items,” McNaney said.
Food packages come with yogurt, packaged muffins and cheese filletes.
Another big replacement is that volunteers are no longer allowed in schools because they restrict the number of other people entering the complex.
The school manages systems in individual schools.
“Programs are moving more slowly this year, so not everyone has yet,” McNaney said.
“Some, due to restrictions, have moved to fewer days, however, the purpose here is for the systems to be fully operational. This is a slower start, seeking to respond to new protocols.
“However, they are very committed to making nutrition systems work at their maximum capacity as much as they can,” McNaney said.
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