In the News ... "With the onset of summer, more hungry kids"

• Options exist for the more Midlanders in need

Erin Stone, Reporter
• Midland Reporter-Telegram

MIDLAND, TEXAS - Summer is often a child’s favorite season -- no school, no homework, only fun. But for many Permian Basin children, summer means hunger.

“The highest need for food bank services is throughout the summer,” said Libby Campbell, executive director of the West Texas Food Bank. “We have a lot of kids that depend on the school nutrition program to eat the free breakfast and lunch or the (Food 2 Kids) backpack programs for the weekends are running so they have stuff over the weekend. But all that kind of stops in the summer.”

The need is particularly great this summer. The combination of the oil downturn with the regular need that arises during summer has left many Midland families scrambling ...

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