EDUCATION, HEALTH & NUTRITION
With the overwhelming and increased unemployment (and underemployment) rates, the reality is that Childhood hunger is increasing daily and will continue to do so. Nearly one out of four children in America are currently facing hunger. Unfortunately, it’s likely that these children will endure lifelong consequences as hunger makes children more prone to illness and other health issues as a result of having limited access to nutritious foods.
During the school year, many children receive free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch through the School Breakfast and National School Lunch Programs. But when school lets out, those children are still in need of healthy meals. Lack of nutrition after school and during the summer months may set up a cycle for poor performance once school begins again. Freedom Within Walls’ feeding programs are designed to provide assistance in that nutrition gap, ensuring that children get the nutritious meals they need for breakfast, lunch, and dinner when they are not in school.
FEEDING PROGRAMS
Freedom Within Walls has developed feeding programs, in which we purchase, prepare and distribute full, healthy meals for dinner and a healthy afternoon snack to over 1,500 children after school daily throughout the school year.
Throughout the summer, we operate our Summer Food Service Program in which we purchase, prepare and distribute full, healthy meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner to over 5,000 underserved children daily throughout the entire summer.
We are assisting in providing a door of opportunity for the youth in our communities to enjoy a healthier quality of life while reducing Childhood hunger through these programs. By helping to improve children’s diets and eating habits, these programs produce healthy and revived students ready to positively impact their world and others around them.
Programs available in...
-Charlotte Metro area (Charlotte, NC)
-Upstate area (Greenville, SC)
ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
Freedom Within Walls launched its first “Freedom Enrichment Program” through the Freedom LEADership Program in partnership with Lead Academy in Greenville, South Carolina serving 100 students.
The program provides free extended academic programming and enrichment every day after school as well as a free summer camp. In order to provide holistic, wrap-around services, this program includes mandatory parental involvement for parents and guardians in an effort to address non academic barriers in the lives of disadvantaged families thereby also impacting the home environment of each student.
Students and families are provided programming encompassing character building, development and mentoring focusing on mindfulness, creating and implementing successful thought patterns, goal setting, intentional decision making, healthy relationships, building positive affirmations, financial literacy, STEM programming, music and arts, fitness, nutrition, trades and entrepreneurship and much more. Stay tuned as we work to open additional “Freedom Enrichment Programs” in our service areas.
Program available in...
-Upstate area (Greenville, SC)
FREEDOM LAB PROGRAM
Freedom Within Walls is expanding!
We will be expanding our FREE After School and Summer Camp Program to Charlotte, North Carolina! This will allow us to serve an additional one hundred kids and their families in the Charlotte Metro area!
Through our new Freedom Lab program, these children and their families will receive free wrap around services that will not only provide an amazing alternative during the hours juveniles engage in the most risky activities, but also equip these families with the necessary tools towards self sufficiency and holistic freedom.
Program available in...
-Charlotte Metro Area (Charlotte, NC)
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General Inquiries
Physical Address
South Carolina Office
122 Old Mill Rd, Suite A
Greenville, South Carolina 29607
Fax: (888) 361-4586
North Carolina Office
635 Pressley Road, Suite F
Charlotte, North Carolina 28217
Fax: (888) 772-8483
