Sodexho Foundation's Feeding Our Future Program Providing 258,000 Meals for Children in 18 Cities

Free meals for children at risk of hunger in United States 


GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 9  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The vast majority (81 percent) of the 16 million school-aged children who depend on free or reduced-price lunches during the school year lose their access to these nutritious meals when the school year ends because federal meal programs feed only about three million during the break.

To help bridge this gap, the Sodexho Foundation, the independent, charitable organization of Sodexho, Inc. (NYSE:SDX), has provided free lunches to children through its summer feeding program, Feeding Our Future, for the last decade.

This year over 7,000 children are benefiting from the program in 18 cities in the United States: Atlanta; Baltimore; Boston; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Chicago; Detroit; Ft. Worth, Texas; Honolulu; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami; Nashville, Tenn.; New York; Oklahoma City; San Jose, Calif.; St. Louis; Terre Haute, Ind. and Washington, D.C.

Created in 1997, Feeding Our Future provides free, nutritious lunches to children who are at risk for hunger during the summer months.  The Sodexho Foundation provides grants to local Sodexho accounts to purchase food for the meals and local Sodexho employees donate time and labor to prepare the meals each day. Employees work closely with local community organizations who distribute the meals to children at more than 72 feeding sites across the country.

"As the leading food service provider to public schools throughout this country, we see first-hand the importance of good nutrition to support healthy childhood development and learning," said Stephen J. Brady, president of the Sodexho Foundation. "Feeding Our Future works to break the cycle of poverty and hunger by helping these children keep up with their peers throughout the year."

About Sodexho

Sodexho, Inc. ( http://www.sodexhousa.com/ ) is the leading provider of integrated food and facilities management services in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with $6.7 billion (USD) in annual revenue and 125,000 employees. Sodexho serves more than 10 million customers daily in corporations, health care, long term care and retirement centers, schools, college campuses, government and remote sites.  Sodexho, Inc., headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., is a subsidiary of Sodexho Alliance (NYSE:SDX), which operates in 80 countries with 332,000 employees ( http://www.sodexho.com/ ).  Committed to improving the quality of daily life for people whenever and wherever they come together, Sodexho, Inc. funds the Sodexho Foundation ( http://www.helpstophunger.org/ ), an independent charitable organization that, since its founding in 1999, has made more than $9.2 million in grants to fight hunger in America. 

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