At the beginning of 2024 The Third Meal set a goal to double the number of children being fed in our programs. The good news is that in just the last three months alone we’ve expanded from helping to feed a little over 50 children to over 500.
Since September we added 3 new projects: one in an Oklahoma food desert, one in a title 1 school in Denver, Colorado and the third for unhoused teens in the Portland, Oregon metro area. We also added an additional service by having food delivered from a Walmart to the schools before children leave at the end of the day. We also continue to add meals being served in our partner restaurants via new donors using our “buy a kid a meal” link:
