“This was the very first of what we hope are going to be many occasions within the Central Valley with the cell unit,” Victoria Rodriguez, the lead affiliate for Save the Kids’s kindergarten readiness applications in Tulare and Fresno County stated.
The cell unit is at the moment housed at Sunnyside Elementary, however might be accessible for occasions across the county, in accordance with Rodriguez. The meals might be funded by a meals safety grant that Rodriguez stated will hopefully be a steady one. The cell unit might be solely for occasions, and might be accessible to every faculty district primarily based on their want or deliberate occasions. In any case, she was positive to emphasise that the cell unit was right here to remain and devoted to serving to households in want.
Lucy just isn’t the primary of her variety. Save the Kids has been sending these transformed buses and vans to different states, as nicely, together with Arkansas, California, Kentucky, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington. There are actually 16 buses already on the highway in these states, and 12 extra are on the brink of drive off to Mississippi, Texas and West Virginia, in accordance with a Save the Kids press launch.
