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What We Do
With one of the highest poverty rates in the country, 20 percent of Alabama's children live below the poverty level. Even free or reduced-price meals don't fill the gap these hungry children experience on weekends.
To reduce the number of hungry children, Alabama Credit Union is partnering with regional food banks and volunteers to discreetly provide healthy weekend meals through Secret Meals For Hungry Children. We are dedicated to this program and the long-term benefits it provides — nutritionally healthy children learn better, feel better and have greater self-esteem. And, counselors tell us the children look forward to receiving the food packs; in many cases the nourishment is delivered with the care and attention that are lacking in these children's lives.
In the first Secret Meals school year, 2008-09, 18 schoolchildren found Secret Meals quietly slipped into their backpacks. In the school year just past, that total had jumped to over 900. Your contributions have made this possible, and 100% of your donation goes directly to Secret Meals; Alabama Credit Union donates all administrative time and costs.
