Hot Meals & Homework

Make a meal. Feed a Mind.

Statistics show that children who do not receive regular, well-balanced nutritious meals do not perform as well on certain academic tests and are more likely to repeat a grade in
school. Join ForKids' Hot Meals & Homework program and help raise
awareness — and a few grades in the process.

Program Description

Hot Meals & Homework is ForKids' afterschool tutoring program and currently serves 30-35 (+10 in Chesapeake) children per week who have exited from our shelters or housing programs. Four nights a week, volunteer tutors come to the Marie and Paul Finch Center for families and children on Colley Avenue in Norfolk or the Cuffee Center in Chesapeake to provide one-on-one tutoring and mentoring, as well as assistance with cultural and arts enrichment activities to the children in our aftercare program. Hot Meals & Homework is a voluntary program and the children who participate are invested in their lives and their families. Every night, an area restaurant provides a hot meal for the entire family of each child participating in Hot Meals & Homework.

One in 37 children in Virginia do not know where they will get their next meal.

(National Center on Family Homelessness, 2009)

How to Help

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""I like coming to Hot Meals and Homework because of the tutors that are here, having a lot of fun here, and the dinners we get totake home.""

-Dante

""Hot Meals & Homework is about cooperation and understanding. The Kids know they have someone to trust and open up to when they arrive. It is about helping the kids with homework and so much more. The time is also spent getting to know them and letting them have an outlet to talk and feel comfortable with others.""

- Jessie Winship, Tutor