"The mission of Kids' Meals, Inc. is to end hunger among children by delivering nutritious meals to the doors of children in need, free of cost, year-round."
We strive for Houston to be known as the first city to have no hungry children.
Kids' Meals, Inc. would not survive without its volunteers. Kids' Meals needs your help to make sure these innocent children do not go to bed hungry each night.
"Texas ranks 3rd in the nation for food insecurity, meaning one in five adults and one in four children in our state are hungry, and that is simply unacceptable."
- Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner, Todd Staples
Kids' Meals is a 501(c)3 non profit, community based organization, serving healthy lunches to 1,200 hungry pre-school aged children, living in poverty. We provide and deliver nutritious meals, free of cost to the families, Monday through Friday, year-round.
About Us
In 2009, Kids' Meals delivered 297,695 lunches with a staff of eight and with the help of over 6,000 volunteers! Thank you for your support in the fight against childhood hunger.
The first meals on wheels program for children started in 1984. The program was started with one location in North Houston. A second location in East Houston was acquired in 2006. In 2008, Kids' Meals was infused with a new energetic and actively involved Board of Directors that is fulfilling our mission of ending hunger among Houston area children living in poverty. In 2009, Kids' Meals brought on two new staff members and served over 297,000 lunches to hungry children in Houston.
Tangible Items Wish List
Kids' Meals is always appreciative of tangible donations that will make our office run more efficiently. While most of our donations focus is on purchasing food for the children's meals, we always have a "wish list" of items that we could really use.
If you have a resource for any of these items, please call Margarita Ledesma at 713-695-5437.
- Vans for food delivery
- Tires (for more information please contact our office)
- Jumper cables for vans
- Water Bottles
- Fans
- Window air conditioning units
- extention cords
- First aid kits for vans and office
- gas cards for the delivery vans
- gift cards for grocery stores
- copy machine
- printers
- scanners
- computers
- office paper
- lunch bags
- sandwich bags
- any office supplies
- 30 gallon storage bins
- chest freezer (large)
- meat storage bins
- carts
- hair nets
- aprons
- plastic gloves
- grocery sacks
- spatulas
- mixing containers
- industrial mixer
We also need:
Office volunteers - answer phones and general office work
Food prep volunteers - help us to make sandwiches and sack lunches for delivery
Food delivery volunteers
