Summer Lunches For Students Not So Accessible To All

There are more than 30 schools, churches and apartment complexes in Clark County where children can go to grab a free meal during summer vacation. For potentially thousands of low-income families who rely on public schools to feed their children breakfast and lunch during the school year, those sites are supposed to ease the challenge of affording food during the summer months. But for some of Clark County’s poorest students, there are no summer lunch sites near their schools, a Columbian analysis shows. Share Vancouver, as well as Battle Ground Public Schools, the Washougal School District and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington, sponsor free breakfasts, lunches and snacks with funding from the United States Department of Agriculture.