Bernalillo County’s Summer Lunch Program will return June 3 to serve free meals to thousands of kids in the county’s unincorporated areas including the South Valley, North Valley, East Mountains, Pueblo of Isleta and Paradise Hills area.
This program — funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant administered by the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department — will run through July 26. In a press release, Bernalillo County Manager Julie Morgas Baca said the county provided almost 100,000 meals last summer.
Read about the City of Albuquerque’s lunch program here.
All meals are prepared at the Albuquerque Public Schools Food and Nutrition Department and will be served at 42 sites including community centers, parks, apartment complexes and mobile home parks. Most of the sites will operate from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be no lunch services on June 19 and July 4.
Children between the ages of one and 18 can receive the meals on a first come, first served basis. Participants are required to receive the entire meal and eat at the meal sites, except for the Grab and Go sites at the Pajarito Mesa Community Building, Los Vecinos Community Center, Vista Grande Community Center, Chilili Multipurpose Center, Isleta Pueblo Public Library and Isleta Recreation Center.
A full list of rules, sites, start dates and locations for the Bernalillo County lunch program is available here.