Feed our Children

The Coronavirus Pandemic has shined a bright light on food insecurity, and the fragility of our community. During these times, Community Organizations have banded together to deliver meals to children within the Kingston City School District, with more children needing meals on a daily basis.

We are asking you to listen to the needs of the community and work with us to ensure that the Kingston City School District is taking a bigger role in feeding our community.

Specifically, we are asking you to:

Offer the same number of meals (breakfast and lunch) while schools are out of session during the COVID-19 emergency as were offered when students were attending classes;
Deliver meals to all KCSD students in need, and their caretakers
Develop a distribution system that uses the district’s transportation, drivers, and bus routes to deliver those meals at least twice per week;
Prioritize communication with families in the district to ensure that every family knows that free food is available for children, and how to access it. This includes printed flyers sent by mail and in students’ work-from-home packets, signage, social media posts, emails, press releases, robocalls, PSAs, etc.;
Ensure that every piece of communication that goes out from the district is also provided in Spanish and all other languages needed in the school community;
Work with Ulster County’s Project Resilience to help deliver food to students’ families through the aforementioned delivery system.

Families are experiencing a high stress situation that is further amplified by hunger and food insecurity. The School District must allocate resources to feeding the children of the Kingston City School District.