St. Leo Food Connection is now part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that will help the organization provide snacks and meals to kids who attend schools in and near Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood.
The program will offer weekday snacks to children from Jason Lee Middle School and Bryant Montessori School who attend an afterschool program at Trinity Presbyterian Church. The program will also provide snacks and dinner to the McCarver Elementary School Peacemakers group that meets every other Friday after school.
Kevin Glackin-Coley, director of the St. Leo Food Connection, said childhood hunger is evident from the growth of his agency’s backpack program, which provides two days’ worth of food on Fridays to more than 550 students in Tacoma and Clover Park schools.
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