The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation has partnered with AmeriQual to provide more meals to students who are learning at home during the pandemic.
The EVSC says it’s purchased 12,000 meal kits from Ameriqual that -- like the current lunch and breakfast meals the district is providing -- will include meals for all children 18 and under.
In a release, EVSC Superintendent David Smith said each meal kit provided by AmeriQual will include 20 meals -- two weeks of breakfasts and lunches for children under 18.
The EVSC will also provide a gallon and a half of cold milk with each meal kit.
Smith said he’s proud of the work that food service employees and volunteers have done to distribute meals. But he said the district wants to make the distribution more secure and feed even more students.
Ameriqual President Dennis Straub said the company that makes ready-to-eat meals for the military is excited to “make a difference” for the schools and the community.
The meal kits will first be distributed on Wednesday at the EVSC’s current “grab & go” lunch sites.
The new meal kits will replace the EVSC’s current “grab & go” lunches.
More information is available at evscschools.com.
