Unfortunately, the families of nearly 15 million children every day can't afford to pack a lunch.  Congress will soon vote on whether to provide funding for child nutrition programs for the next five years.

These are critical programs that provide tens of millions of our kids with free meals for breakfast and lunch at school.  Nutrition standards for these lunches are also set in this bill.  In short, it's critical that these programs continue to be funded - but they expire on September 30.

Congress needs to hear from us loud and clear that not only do we support maintaining the current programs, but we need to soon take additional steps to make sure that schools can provide children with fresh, healthy food.

We need you to write to your representatives now and urge them to continue to support child nutrition programs.