Nutritional Development Services (NDS) of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will host representatives from the White House, the USDA and the University of Pennsylvania at one of their Summer Meals Program sites.

Tuesday July 23, 2013
11:00 a.m.
Salvation Army, The Learning Zone
1340 Brown Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123

Melissa Rogers, Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and Norah Deluhery, Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, will be joined by Dr. John Dilulio and Mr. Joseph Tierney of the Fox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania as they tour the Learning Zone, a summer enrichment program located at the Salvation Army which serves lunch and snacks free of charge to 110 children ages 18 and younger daily.

The visit will provide an opportunity to discuss some of the challenges that NDS faces in providing summer meals throughout the Greater Philadelphia area and ways to improve the program.

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Editor's Note: The NDS Summer Meals program is a federally funded child nutrition program that provides a nutritious lunch and snack each day. Last year NDS served 873,000 meals at 468 sites in the five county area. To learn more please visit http://www.ndsarch.org/.

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Stephanie Brophy
Associate Director of Communications
215-587-3747