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Loren Feldkamp flashed a warm smile to about a dozen cafeteria workers last week as they prepared lunches for more than 350 schoolchildren in northeastern Kansas.Feldkamp, the superintendent of the Tonganoxie School District, thanked them each for their dedication to making the grab-and-go meals that were sustaining lines of children and parents. Nine school days earlier, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly had to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but school staff were still feeding kids. © Mandi Wright, Detroit Free PressDavid L. In other states, churches and nonprofits have stepped up when schools shuttered their meal programs. Shelby County Public Schools in Memphis shuttered its lunch program after a worker who was not involved in meal preparation tested positive for COVID-19. Two days later, however, the YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South took over the program, from 60 locations.Even in districts where food distributions continued last week, school officials and community groups struggled to find innovative ways to reach the most students.They're also helping with Wi-Fi:Many benefited from support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program, which last year alone provided an estimated 141 million meals to students during winter, spring and summer school breaks.The program’s guidelines also allow participants to receive meals during emergencies and natural disasters.

And although the rules normally call for children to be served meals at specific times and require them to eat the meals at approved sites, the USDA has waived those requirements nationwide in response to the pandemic. © Max Gersh / The Commercial AppealCamaree Hurd, 9, and his 6-year-old sister, Amani, get lunches from the Memphis YMCA on March 23.In Ohio, the Children’s Hunger Alliance had already stockpiled 18,000 meals from the program in anticipation of spring break in that state. When the governor closed schools a few days early, the group was ready.The alliance teamed up with library systems to serve meals from branch parking lots, said Judy Mobley, the organization’s president and chief executive officer.

A Hertz rental car office provided two vans for food delivery. The group also hopes to soon deliver meals to children in public housing who don’t have transportation to distribution centers at local schools.“I don’t think we ever envisioned a scenario where we would just park a truck somewhere and advertise to feed children,” Mobley said, “but what’s happening is nothing we could have imagined either.”Is online school illegal? In Kansas, Feldkamp says he plans to reopen the district’s grab-and-go meal program in two weeks, after employees are sure they didn’t contract COVID-19.In the meantime, other school districts have offered to serve his district’s students and parents.