Programs · 03 of 08
7,800 meals · daily · mehadrin · every weekday

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

7,800
Hot meals daily

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

$2.20
Cost per meal

Including ingredients, kitchen wages, energy, and equipment. Every meal subsidized by donor support.

1.4M
Meals per year

Across the whole network — Pesach to Pesach. 1.4 million reasons a child stays in school.

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 13-1953145.

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