Programs · 03 of 08
Hot · mehadrin · every school day

For Many of Our Children, This Is The Only Full Meal They Eat

We serve a hot, mehadrin, balanced lunch to every child, every weekday — chicken, rice, vegetables, fruit. We don't ask anyone to pay extra for it. We never want a child to be hungry while their classmates eat.

The promise

Why Lunch Matters

It's hard to learn Gemara when your stomach is empty. It's hard to focus on shoresh-binyan-poel when you're calculating whether your mother could afford breakfast.

Every Chinuch Atzmai school serves the same hot, mehadrin meal at the same time every day, to every child, regardless of what the family can pay. The kitchens are an extension of the classroom.

By the numbers

What This Looks Like

Hot
Daily meals

Every school day. Mehadrin Beis Yosef. Cooked on-site at each school by trained frum kitchen staff.

Subsidized
By donor support

Including ingredients, kitchen wages, energy, and equipment. Every meal subsidized so no child goes home hungry.

Daily
Across 127 schools

Across the whole network — Pesach to Pesach. For many children, the school lunch is the most reliable meal of the day.

Sponsor this program

$50.
Sponsor lunch for one classroom

$50 sponsors a full hot lunch for one classroom (about 24 children) on a single day. Many sponsors do this in honor of a Yahrzeit, a birthday, or a refuah sheleimah.

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All donations are tax-deductible. EIN 13-1965385.

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