Countywide : Lunch Coordinator Wins State Honor
A staff member with the Orange County Community Development Council has received an award from a statewide group that is working to end hunger.
Annette Jewell, the council’s summer lunch outreach coordinator, was honored with the “Hunger Fighter Award” by the California Hunger Action Coalition. The group praised Jewell for her “dedication, service and deep personal commitment to the effort to end hunger in California.”
For the past three years Jewell has been coordinating efforts in the county to bring free lunches to poor children in the summer, when school is out.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture pays for the Summer Food Service Program. Since 1991, Jewell has worked with school districts, cities and churches in the county to find ways to distribute food to needy children.
The Orange County Community Development Council said that because of Jewell’s work, 346,652 free meals were served to needy children in the county last summer. The number of children helped is expected to increase this summer, council officials said.
The Orange County Community Development Council is private charity based in Garden Grove.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
