Share your School Meals for All Story

School meals are critical to children’s health and well-being, and they ensure that students have the nutrition they need to learn throughout the day. To keep child hunger at bay during the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued waivers to allow schools to provide meals at no charge to all students, no matter their household income. Without these waivers, the alarming spikes in childhood hunger caused by the fallout of COVID-19 would have been even worse. But the waiver authorizing free school meals for all students expired in June 2022.

We want to hear from you. Tell us what these pandemic-era free school meals meant to you and your family, and how the expiration of the waiver authorizing free school meals for all impacted you and your community.

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* 1. What is your contact information?

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* 2. Your story about how free school meals in a NJ school helped you or your family.

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* 3. What is your role?

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* 4. By checking this box, you give your consent to Hunger Free New Jersey to share your story (not your last name or contact information) with lawmakers and the press. Your story may be shared in advocacy efforts, news releases, reports, professional publications, professional conferences, and on social media and websites.

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* 5. If you are willing to publicly share your story by talking to the press or policymakers, please check this box for HFNJ to connect with you at a later time.

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