GOOD NEIGHBORS

Those working together to provide children in our community with

* Nutritional lunches  * Improved reading skills 

 * Values for living peacefully with others  

* An understanding of their capacity to make a difference in this world

SML Good Neighbors, Inc. was started by members of four churches with deep concerns about children in our rural Virginia community. In Virginia, as in the rest of our nation, the rate of poverty in rural communities is over 13%. In the five elementary schools in our immediate area over 500 children are eligible for the free or reduced-price school lunch program. Because the schools do not provide lunches during the summer, they are left with inadequate nutrition.    These are the children we serve.