Summer Meals for Kids, provided by The Open Door, Cape Ann’s go-to hunger-relief organization launched this week providing at least 11 sites in Gloucester and Cape Ann so kids and their families can make sure no kid goes hungry while school is out.

All sites serve take-out meals only, so children can eat at home with their families. Breakfast and lunch is bundled together, and Friday sites hand out extra meals for Saturday and Sunday.  Last year during the summer, The Open Door distributed 39K meals to local children–a FIVE-FOLD increase over pre-pandemic norms. This year the same need is expected. Current sites include:

GLOUCESTER 

• The Open Door 

28 Emerson Avenue 
June 17-August 27 

Mon thru Fri 
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 

•  Riverdale Park 

69 Veterans’ Way 

June 17- August 27 

Mon thru Fri 

12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

•  Willowood Gardens 

40 Willowood Road 

June 17- August 27 

Mon thru Fri 

12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

•  Pond View Village 

23 Lepage Lane 

June 17-August 27 

Mon thru Fri 

11:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. 

•  West Parish School 

10 Concord Street 

(Enrolled) 

June 28-August 5 

Mon thru Thu 
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. 

•  Beeman School 

138 Cherry Street 

(Enrolled) 

June 28-July 29 

Mon thru Thu 

12:00 noon 

•  O’Maley Innovation Middle School 

32 Cherry Street 

(Enrolled) 

June 28-August 19 

Mon thru Thu 

12:00 noon 

•  Gloucester High School 

32 Leslie O Johnson Rd 

(Enrolled) 

July 6-August 6 

Mon thru Thu 

10:30am 

•  Camp Spindrift 

13 Atlantic Street 

(Enrolled) 

June 17-August 27 

Mon thru Thu 

11:00 a.m. – 1:00PM 

IPSWICH  

• Ipswich Community Food Pantry 

00 Southern Heights 
June 23-August 27 

Wed and Thu 
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 

•  Winthrop Elementary School

65 Central Street 

(Enrolled) 

July 6th-August 12th 

Mon thru Th 

Breakfast: 10-10:30AM  Lunch: 12-12:30PM 

For more information, go to FOODPANTRY.ORG/summermeals or call 978-283-6776 

About The Open Door

The mission of The Open Door is to alleviate the impact of hunger in our community. We use practical strategies to connect people to good food, to advocate on behalf of those in need, and to engage others in the work of building food security. Founded in 1978, The Open Door is a community food resource center for low-income residents of Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester, Essex, Ipswich, Hamilton, Boxford, Rowley, Topsfield, and Wenham. In 2020, The Open Door helped stabilize the lives and health of 9,681 unduplicated people from 4,703 households through the distribution of 2.64M pounds of food (or 2.05M meals.) Requests for food assistance during this pandemic year were up 27 percent.