For many children, summer is a time filled with sunshine, swimming pools, bike rides, and making memories with friends and family. But for thousands of children in our community, summer also brings something far more difficult — uncertainty about where their next meal will come from.
During the school year, many families rely on school breakfasts and lunches to help ensure their children have access to nutritious meals each day. When school lets out for summer, those meals disappear, leaving families and local youth programs struggling to fill the gap. And no child should ever have to worry about hunger.
At The Hunger Task Force, we believe every child deserves access to healthy food year-round, especially during the summer months when the need becomes even greater. That’s why we are proud to launch Fight Summer Hunger! — because hunger doesn’t take summer vacation.
Throughout the summer, we work alongside local youth programs, meal sites, partner food pantries, and community organizations to help provide meals, snacks, fresh produce, and pantry staples to children and families across the Coulee Region. From supplying protein-rich foods to food pantries to helping support meal programs serving children each day, our mission is simple: keep kids fed all summer long.
The impact of food insecurity on children reaches far beyond an empty stomach. Hunger affects a child’s health, energy, confidence, and ability to learn and grow. Children should be focused on enjoying summer, spending time with family & friends, and preparing for the upcoming school year — not worrying about whether there will be enough food at home.
Thanks to the support of our community, we are able to make a difference for local children and families every single day. But we cannot do it alone.
Your support through Fight Summer Hunger! helps provide critical food assistance throughout the summer months:
- $100 provides a week’s worth of snacks for 72 children in a local youth program
- $250 helps provide 100 dinners through a summer meal site program
- $500 supplies protein-rich peanut butter to one of our partner food pantries throughout the summer
- $1,000 provides a month’s worth of food to one of the youth programs we support during the summer months
Every donation stays local and helps ensure children in our community have access to the healthy food they need to thrive.
Together, we can fight summer hunger and help make sure every child has a summer filled with memories, growth, and opportunity — not hunger.
Join us in the fight today by making a donation to Fight Summer Hunger! and help keep kids fed all summer long.
🔗 https://lacrossehtf.org/donate/fightsummerhunger/
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram throughout the summer to see the incredible ways our community is coming together to help keep kids fed and fight summer hunger across the Coulee Region.