Summer Lunch Program
The LunchBox is on a mission to end summer hunger by increasing access to fresh, delicious, and nutritious lunches.
Many children rely on school lunches as their only meal of the day - so what happens in the summer?
We bring the food to them
Summer 2023:
This summer we have some exciting news - we have a new truck!
For the duration of the summer we will be delivering lunches:
12pm-2pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays
We currently deliver lunches to homes within the Hilltop neighborhood (between Sullivant Ave. and Broad St.)
We love our volunteers!
If you would like to help cook, package, and/or prepare food please let us know.
If you would like to volunteer, please send us a message:
Hunger in Ohio
You may have heard 1 in 6 kids in America faces hunger, but did you know in Ohio, specifically in some neighborhoods in Columbus is can be as high as 1 in 3 children?
Ohio is one of the worst states in the nation when it comes to hunger in the summer. Of those kids who rely on school lunches, only 10% of them have access summer feeding programs.
That means of the almost 600,000 kids who were food insecure in 2018, over 500,000 of them potentially went without lunches last summer.
That’s enough hungry kids to fill the horseshoe over 5 times.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has”
— Margaret Mead