At the beginning of the school year, the Urban Gardening Coalition was notified that the school garden program at Tennyson Middle School would be receiving a Sodexo School Engagement Grant in partnership with Youth Service America - a grant which utilizes service-learning as a means to empower students to learn about impact childhood hunger and nutrition in their communities.
Follow to the Urban Gardening Coalition’s blog for more updates on the Tennyson Middle School Garden and the Sodexo School Engagment Grant!
- Tennyson Middle Awarded Sodexo School Engagement Grant
- Tennyson Garden Club Votes to Donate to Local Charity
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CHILDHOOD HUNGER
Sodexo is underwriting this program because they expressly want to engage students on the issue of childhood hunger. Although it is often difficult to isolate children from a hungry family, or from the broader underlying issues of poverty and homelessness, this progaram’s focus is on bringing food resources to children, and on increasing awareness of the crisis of hunger as it affects the children in thea community.
