meal program
Organized feeding initiative
A meal program is an organized effort to provide food to people who need it—schoolchildren, seniors, hospital patients, or those facing food insecurity.
The term covers institutional feeding operations like school lunch programs and community initiatives like Meals on Wheels: The church runs a meal program for homeless families.
Also called a feeding program.
- cafeteriaSelf-service dining facility
- school lunchMidday institutional meal
- lunchMidday meal
- nutritionBodily use of food
- balanced dietVaried nutritional intake
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- Charity Workclothing drive, clothing drives, toy drive, community aid, hunger relief
- soup kitchensoup kitchen, serving line, ladles, volunteers, food donations
- church ministryyouth ministry, church outreach, women's ministry, youth mentoring, children's ministry
- food aidfood assistance, food relief, food stamps, food pantry, food donations
- food systemsfood supply, food distribution, food chain, food bank, food production
- philanthropydonations, charity work, donate, give, giving
meal programstarvation
Extreme nutritional deprivation
famine · hunger · food insecurity · food scarcity · malnutrition
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