The School District of Palm Beach County’s School Food Service department is adding 34 breakfast carts to schools across the District.
A $244,800 grant from GENYOUth will cover the costs of the carts, placed in convenient areas such as courtyards, bus loops, or car lines, to ease the access to the District’s free breakfast program. The carts offer shelf-stable breakfast foods including cereal, granola bars, or Pop-Tarts, along with fresh fruit and milk or juice.
The carts can also be used for lunch, after school snacks, supper programs, and summer feeding, as well as being useful during emergency situations to support the distribution of community meals, such as when schools become shelters during hurricanes.
Breakfast is always offered for free at all District schools. However, some students don’t have the time or the desire to go to the cafeteria before school starts, which is why School Food Service launched a breakfast cart program in 2016.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, 88% of schools report lacking at least one piece of equipment they need to serve healthier foods. To combat that issue, GENYOUth seeks to increase breakfast (and other school meal) participation numbers in South Florida schools.
Through the provision of grants of this nature and with their Florida 100 Super School Breakfast, GENYOUth aims to provide Grab-N-Go breakfast carts to 100 South Florida schools, which over time will increase access to nearly 50 million meals among food -insecure students.
Schools receiving breakfast carts:
Belvedere Elementary
Benoist Farms Elementary
Binks Forest Elementary
Clifford O. Taylor/Kirklane Elementary
Conversatory School at NPB
Coral Sunset Elementary
Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune Elementary
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary
Everglades Elementary
Freedom Shores Elementary
Gove Elementary
Greenacres Elementary
Heritage Elementary
Hidden Oaks Elementary
Intensive Trans-South Elementary
J.C. Mitchell Elementary
K.E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary
Lighthouse Elementary
Limestone Creek Elementary
Orchard View Community Elementary
Palmetto Elementary
Pine Grove Elementary
Pleasant City Elementary
Poinciana Elementary
Roosevelt Elementary
Royal Palm Beach Elementary
S.D. Spady ELementary
Seminole Trails Elementary
Somerset Academy JFK Elementary
Starlight Cove Elementary
Timber Trace Elementary
Verde Elementary
Village Academy Elementary
Wynnebrook Elementary