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Vickie Coffey started a free breakfast and summer feeding program at the Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corporation, which serves hundreds of students every day.“It gives you energy for the school stuff you learn," 10-year-old Rosie Nix said.The fourth grader spends her days learning about factors and reading Winn-Dixie.Nix is one of hundreds of Edgewood Schools students that participates in the RBB Goes Free breakfast program.
“Kids are hungry in our nation and the only true way to eliminate that is to have healthy meals for all. We did it during COVID and we can do it again," Coffey said. “When we first started the program, we had about 100 of those 600 students eating breakfast every day. That’s a low number. When Vickie started up the program and said let’s get kids in the cafeteria, let’s feed them, it was such a blessing for a kids," Barrett said.RBB Goes Free costs the school district about $12,000 a year and is funded through the national School Breakfast Program , a federally assisted meal program operating in public and non-profit private schools.
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