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Smart Lunch, Smart Kid Welcomes Your Attendance at Our Information Session!!

Every day in Georgia,
more than 800,000 children receive a free or reduced-price lunch at school, but
free lunches end when summer begins. 
In
2012, Action Ministries, a nonprofit
agency that helps the hungry, homeless and working poor, launched a program
Smart Lunch, Smart Kid - which provides lunch for many of
these children throughout the summer. What began with a distribution of over 100,000 lunches
in 2012 grew to 210,055 lunches in 2013. 



Please join us along with representatives of parents, schools, civic groups, child care centers,
nonprofit organizations, businesses, local clubs, churches, public safety
representatives, elected officials throughout the
Tri-Cities communities, and all
other interested parties at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 20 at College Park First UMC for a conversation.



During this meeting we will present our accomplishments and
goals for the summer of 2014. We will also need to identify individual children
and pockets of poverty in the South Fulton communities. We also ask that you to
help us to identify community leaders from the private, public, and nonprofit
sectors to partner in the launch of this upcoming summer. We would also request
that you invite those who serve in leadership roles within the community to
ensure the ultimate success of this meeting. We’ll need donated supplies,
committed individuals, and compassionate volunteers. 

This summer we will need to make sandwiches, assemble lunch bags, and deliver them to designated
under-resourced neighborhoods and various South Fulton/Tri-Cities locations,
feeding these children right where they live.

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As the coordinator for these areas, I wish to raise this
community’s children to become healthy, happy, and successful adults. By
raising awareness at this event, and seeking your involvement, together, we can
help build a bridge for people in poverty and children who are hungry within
our local city.



Smart Lunch, Smart Kid hopes you will partner with us in
this effort to care for the children
in our communities.
  We
challenge the community to join in on this important initiative to help lead
families out of poverty by securing meals to children.  Food is one of the
most basic needs that are imperative to maintain health, normal
functioning, and survival; therefore every child should have access to meals. Here is your opportunity to
demonstrate that you are a committed pioneer in efforts to eliminate hunger in the city and state. This summer, we
want to do our part as a community to accomplish even more
.
  

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For more information or to RSVP for this event please contact



Zamira Hume, Coordinator



Action Ministries Smart Lunch, Smart Kid



ZHume@actionministries.net

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