
HCSD delivers meals during pandemic
By Danny Federico Riverbend News
The Hamilton County School District (HCSD) joined the Baylor University Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP) to deliver 51,720 meals during the coronavirus pandemic.
On Tuesday, Dec. 1, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and key public and private organizations, BCHP announced it had served more than 38.7 million meals between March and August to more than 270,000 children impacted by the pandemic as part of the Emergency Meals-to-You (eMTY) program. In the Hamilton County area alone, 439 children were served from June through Aug. 15.
According to a press release, the eMTY initiative was an expansion of a regional p