Earlier this month the Cobb County School District said it would continue providing weekday student meals through the month of June.
Since the district closed to in-person classes in mid-March, those breakfasts and lunches have been given out each Monday.
But with this Monday being Memorial Day, the district said next week’s food will be distributed on Tuesday, May 26, from 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and will be provided for four days, through next Friday.
The joint effort with MUST Ministries has changed some distribution points, but East Cobb Middle School will continue to be one of those venues, as it has from the beginning.
The Cobb school district food and nutrition staff prepares the meals, which have been sent to eight schools for pickup.
The CCSD says it has provided 141,000 breakfasts and 176,00 lunches since the week of March 16, and anticipates serving 225,000 more meals through the end of June.
Funding has come through the federal school lunch program and MUST volunteers have been at the schools to make the deliveries.
Each student who needs meals (pre-K through recent graduates under 18, and newcomers) must be present for the food to be distributed via a drive-thru pickup, with participants and volunteers observing social distancing guidelines.
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