Restaurants in cities across the country are stepping up to offer free meals to children who rely on free or reduced-cost school lunches, as those children’s schools are shut down due to coronavirus.
Throughout the United States, according to Hunger Facts, 22 million kids qualify for free or reduced-cost school lunches and breakfasts. Many of those children come from food-insecure families, and those school meals are the only hot and nutritious meals those kids get.
Now, however, many of those children are missing out on those free meals, as their schools are shut down to stem the spread of coronavirus.
And across the country, local restaurants are stepping up to provide free meals to those kids.
In Illinois, for example, where last week Governor J. B. Pritzker shut down all schools at least through the end of March, children who would otherwise have to do without their daily school lunch are finding relief from local restaurants.
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