密歇根新闻广播 新冠病毒时期的学生餐饮

 

K-12 schools all over Michigan are closed due to COVID-19. But what about students who rely on school breakfast and lunch for their daily meals?

Well different school districts have different solutions.

New Faith Temple Church of God in Christ in southeast Grand Rapids, for example, is one of eight locations around the city handing out meals to Grand Rapids Public Schools’ families while schools are closed.

Reverend Deidric Tupper, the pastor¹ at New Faith Temple, and his wife Natasha Tupper decided² to help pass out meals once they heard schools would be closed last week.

“To make sure that families are able to feed their children, and that the working class is able to reduce their grocery bill so that they have funds to provide other basic needs for their family,” Tupper said.

Rachel Olexa is a mother of seven kids. They are all home instead of at school. She says she stocked up on groceries last week before learning that schools would be closed.

“We’re already out of produce, we’re already out of milk, and I really don’t want to go to the grocery store because of all the germs. So we’ll probably be here as long as they offer the service,” Olexa said.

Other school districts have similar programs. In Muskegon Heights, meals were sent out on buses for parents to pick up at their local bus stops, and some rural school districts, like Baldwin, are offering free school meals for multiple days in one delivery.

Check with your local school district to see what meal assistance is being offered while schools are closed.

1 pastor   

n.牧师，牧人

参考例句：

• He was the son of a poor pastor.他是一个穷牧师的儿子。
• We have no pastor at present:the church is run by five deacons.我们目前没有牧师：教会的事是由五位执事管理的。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。