A Full-Court Press for a Nutritious Summer!
Lay-Up is committed to bridging the summer food gap by providing over 220 kids with healthy food at no cost. Providing kids with nutritious foods will make an incredible difference to their positive experience on-court, contributing to positive energy, learning, engagement, teamwork, mood and health.
You can make a meaningful difference by helping Lay-Up provide over 10,000 snacks and meals to kids this summer:
- $13.50 buys food for a kid for a day.
- $50 gives a kid healthy lunches for a week.
- $100 buys nutritious snacks for 30 kids at camp that day.
- $270 sponsors a kid’s healthy food for the summer.
- $500 lunch for 50 kids.
Increasing Access to Nutritious Food is Urgently Needed
During the school year, over 150,000 kids get access to healthy food through school nutrition programs in Toronto. During the summer months, this support is unavailable, leaving thousands of families facing increased food insecurity.
As we head into the summer months, rapidly rising food costs are making the problem worse and will have the biggest impact on families already facing barriers to affordable and healthy food. Food banks are being stretched to their limit, and many summer lunch initiatives have not been able to return to support in-person programs this year.
Lay-Up plays an important part in addressing this issue by providing healthy food at our community-based programs in Toronto Neighbourhood Improvement Areas where families face disproportionate and systemic barriers to accessing food.
Thank you!