Haverhill Public Schools Plan To Buy Food Truck To Feed The Community

Chaiel Schaffel

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Meals in certain school districts are funded by the FEDS,
and for each meal, the district gets a couple extra
sens for food related infrastructure.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
The number of students receiving free meals went way up,
so that slight overage on each meal compounded in herol.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
That's led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in unspent money,
which needs to be spent on something food related. After
you're upgrading the school kitchen. Superintendent Margaret Morata wants to
feed the community. With the rest we.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Can use it as a mobile food pantry.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
The plan buy a food truck that'll drive around the
neighborhoods feeding the hungry. She says, it's crucial these kids
get nutrition on and off school property to be able
to learn another use, give the culinary kids some experience.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
So we wanted the kids too, already grow the food
and prepare the meals, to have an opportunity to sell
those meals to the community.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Kyle Shaffle to be busy Boston's news radio