Summertime can mean hunger for children whose families depend upon free or subsidized school meals
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (June 10, 2019) – Penn Community Bank, the region’s leading independent, mutual financial institution, is proud to join St. Luke’s University Health Network in sponsoring a free summer meals program for underprivileged children, aged 18 and younger, living in the Quakertown area.
More than half of the children enrolled at Quakertown Elementary School – 157 of 287 students in 2017 – 2018 – qualify for free or reduced-price school meals, according to a report from the Quakertown Community School District. During the summer, those children are at higher risk to miss a meal because they no longer have access to the food available at school. St. Luke’s Summer Meals Program is designed to help meet that need.