The Rapides Parish School Board will provide free breakfast and lunch at summer meal sites for children 18 and under starting Monday, June 2. 

Parents/guardians won’t need to fill out any forms in order for their children to eat free this summer. All they have to do is bring the children to one of the meal sites during the allotted time to get free breakfast and lunch. 

There are 14 different meal sites across Rapides Parish for children to obtain these meals. Most of the school meal sites will be closed on Fridays. Exceptions to this are Alexandria Senior High and Peabody Magnet High, so on Fridays, these are the sites for breakfast and lunch.

There are is one requirement for this summer program: all of the breakfast and lunch meals must be eaten on site.

According to Erma Davis, Director of Child Nutrition, “They can’t take any meals from the site. Everything has to be eaten on site, and everything has to be taken.”

The summer feeding program is stricter than the regular school year program. Children who show up after the allotted time, they will not be able to eat. 

“If the breakfast is from 7 to 8, and you are bringing your child at 8:01, we can’t provide a service for them,” said Davis. “If they are already in line, we will serve them, but if they are coming through the door and it’s after the hours, we are not allowed to do that.”