Secret Meals For Hungry Children

Many children in Alabama rely heavily on free and reduced breakfasts and lunches five days a week. However, the weekend creates a nutritional gap leaving many children hungry when they return to school on Monday. Secret Meals fills the gap these children experience by discretely slipping into their backpack, on Friday's, vitamin-fortified and nutritional meals.

Alabama Credit Union created the Secret Meals For Hungry Children program in 2008 with one goal in mind - decreasing the number of children in Alabama and Florida facing hunger over the weekend. Through partnerships with local food banks, our commitment has never been stronger.

With one of the highest poverty rates in the country, 22 percent of both Alabama and Florida’s children live below the poverty level. Currently 2,312 students are receiving Secret Meals food packs across the state of Alabama and into Florida. To date, no school has been denied a request to increase the number of children enrolled in the program. $140 (on average) is the cost to provide a weekend food pack to one child, identified as going hungry, for an entire school year.