The Backpack Program continues this summer after making a significant impact on school families all year. MCS has partnered with The Joshua Project in response to a steady need for healthy foods in local households.
MCS has been named a Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) district by the New York State Education Department. Due to a high community poverty rate, extra resources, particularly free meals, are provided to all students, Monday through Friday during the school year. The 2023-24 Backpack Program ensured that students also had the nutrition they needed on weekends.
During the 2023-24 school year, Middleburgh Central School District also partnered with the Northeast Regional Food Bank to provide 625 bags of food, totaling 4879 pounds distributed.
This summer, The Joshua Project is ensuring that the students that were helped during the school year will still get the nutrition they need. On Thursdays, volunteers assemble boxes and bags of food that are then delivered to MCS and other local families on Friday. Each delivery provides a week’s worth of food for the student.
Free summer lunch provided for all ages.
For over a decade, MCS has hosted The Joshua Project in its mission to provide free meals to all in need in the Middleburgh community during the summer months. Meals are served from noon to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday, in the high school cafeteria.
We have been doing this for 11 years operating 100% through volunteers, said Patrick Costello, president of The Joshua Project. “We are so happy to continue to be able to provide free lunch at MCS, and provide weekly deliveries for students over the summer.”
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