The Salvation Army Weyburn began a new program, Lunch for Kids, on April 28.
The program will be offered every Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Weyburn Free Methodist Church from now until the end of June.
In the first week of the program, they gave out 23 lunches on April 28, and 58 lunches on April 30.
“We have happy with those numbers, but still want to encourage anyone with children to take advantage of the program,” said community ministries coordinator Jennifer Lorinczy.
Volunteers will be there handing out bagged lunches to families for their children. The lunches will include some items that will need to be heated or cooked, as well as snacks and a juice box.
The program will provide 100 bagged lunches available each day, or 200 a week.
The Free Methodist Church is located at the corner of 14th Street and Coteau Avenue, next to the Young Fellows Tot Lot. The lunches will be handed out in the parking lot of the Free Methodist Church, so volunteers can practice physical distancing properly while running the program.
The goal of the program is to try to fill the gap of the nutrition programs that ended when the schools closed in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
All donations are welcome in support of this program, either monetary or school lunch items/snacks. Some donations came in already, such as a $1,200 donation from the Weyburn Rotary Club presented on Tuesday, and a recent donation of funds for 100 bagged lunches from RD Family Funeral Chapel.
Some of the items needed for the food bank right now include canned meat, pasta, pasta sauce, canned fruit, soup, crackers, peanut butter, canned vegetables and one-litre juice.
