Feeding Children Outside School Walls

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Shay Petitto

Posted

May 10, 2018

Sometimes the only meal a child gets is at school. Shay Petitto, Executive Director, Scott's Run Settlement House, tells host Eric Minor what her organization is doing to help fill that gap and ease childhood food insecurity. srsh.org

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