Growing up in the Chestatee community, Alisha Chavez was one of many students who benefited from the reduced-fare lunch program at school, but she didn’t know about programs that offered free meals to students in the summer. Now a human services major at the University of North Georgia, Chavez volunteers in a program that hopes to provide more than 40,000 free meals for children at 19 sites this summer in Hall and three other counties. “(Hunger) has always been a problem that I’ve seen, but I’m glad that there’s actually a program to help with this and that I get to be a part of it,” Chavez said. “It’s actually a little fun, too, because I get to see where my skills are and I get to work directly with the kids.”
Volunteers, partnerships work to feed children in Hall County this summer