By Vicki Marsh
Free Breakfast Outreach came to be because of a second grader’s concern.
You’ve heard it said, There ain’t no free lunch. Nathaniel Quimby of Tracy’s Elementary School says, Yes, there is!
At the end of his second year of school, young Quimby was not so excited about school ending.
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When his mother questioned his mood, he told her, “I’m worried about my classmates who won’t have any lunch or breakfast now. Mom, will my friends go hungry?”
Her son’s concern sent his mother, Ingrid Quimby, to the school office.
Nathaniel’s worry about his schoolmates was well founded, she learned. Anne Arundel County had no summer meal program for children of low-income families. When school ended, the meal program at school stopped.
“My son has an unbelievable heart,” she told Bay Weekly. “He senses and sees need in others that most children never would.”