You can help children of local families in need by giving them summer  lunches through CAC. For many kids summer is a time for vacation fun. But for families on tight budgets summers are stressful with increased costs for childcare and food to feed children when they are home from school. In Sandy Springs, more than 50 percent of public school students qualify for the federal lunch program, and in Dunwoody almost 20 percent qualify, meaning those kids can eat at school twice a day for free. Through generous donors, CAC works to help these families by providing summer lunches for kids and back packs with school supplies for the start of school.

A CAC Summer Lunch Bag contains:   

5 juice boxes

5 snack bars

5 fruit cups 4 oz.

1 box of mac & cheese

1 can pasta meals (i.e. SpaghettiOs)

1 tuna & crackers pack

1 instant yakisoba and 1 chili bowl.  

Assemble items in a 2.5 gallon Ziplock bag. 

Dunwoody United Methodist campers packed hundreds of summer lunch bags for kids in need.

Businesses and groups have contributed to the Summer Lunch Bag program by donating already packed summer lunch bags or giving their time to assemble lunch bags at CAC. Financial contributions make it possible for CAC to buy summer lunch food items at greatly reduced prices  from the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Donate online today at http://www.ourcac.org!  

Do you have a neighborhood, book club, swim club, business or other  group of people you assocaite with? If so, please consider holding a food drive for CAC this summer!  Every little bit donated to CAC helps neighbors in need feed their families this summer.