It’s invisible, but something called a poverty line runs down the middle of Sisson Road in Harwich. On one side of the line lies something called a poverty zone, where more than 50 percent of families live below the federal poverty level.
There, any child can walk into a Food for Kids site and receive a free meal. On the other side of the road, children must qualify for the USDA summer meal program.
At her desk in the parish hall at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Orleans this week, however, Food for Kids program director Ruth Campbell recently heard she’d gotten a federal waiver to allow Harwich Elementary School’s Monomoy summer programming to be an considered “open.”
No matter on which side of the poverty line, feeding as many Lower and Outer Cape children possible is the mission of Food for Kids.
And there are plenty of children for whom the meals are a welcome benefit. Click the link above to continue reading.