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On Wednesday, the El Paso Independent School District officials announced that will continue to provide five days’ worth of meals to any child under the age of 18 during the COVID-19 campus closures, but will shift distribution to three days a week starting on Monday.

Starting on April 20, EPISD will distribute meals on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in order to lessen potential exposure to the novel coronavirus for families and cafeteria workers.

“We are proud of the efforts EPISD has made to make sure all children in El Paso have access to healthy meals during these difficult times,” Superintendent Juan E. Cabrera said. “However, we want to make sure that our employees and our families reduce the risk of being infected by the virus. This move to three days a week will help us continue our service to the community and safeguard the wellbeing of everyone.”

The take-home meals will be distributed curbside using social distancing guidelines on those days from 11a.m. to 1 p.m.

Although meals will be distributed three times a week, children will receive breakfast and lunch for five days. Children will receive two breakfasts and two lunches on Mondays and Wednesdays, and one breakfast and lunch on Friday.

EPISD offers free take-home breakfast and lunch for children ages 1-18, regardless of their enrollment status with the District. New federal guidelines allow parents to pick up meals for students without having their children present at the point of distribution.

Parents can bring their children to a distribution site to be officially counted by EPISD Food and Nutrition staff. Once counted, a parent will be issued a card noting how many children live in that household, and that card can be presented every day from then on to receive meals.

A second option for parents is to bring one of five documents to show proof that a child lives in that household. The parent will then be issued a card noting the number of children in the home, which can be presented every day from then on to receive meals.

Parents need to present one of the following documents to participate in this option:

• An official school enrollment document (letter or email)
• Student report cards
• School attendance records from a school district parent portal
• Birth certificate for children not enrolled in school
• Student ID cards

The cards issued will be site-specific and will be valid only at the school that issued them. Parents are asked to use the meal distribution service only at one location.

EPISD meal distribution sites are:

• Andress High, 5400 Sun Valley
• Aoy Elementary, 901 S. Campbell
• Armendariz Middle, 2231 Arizona
• Austin High School, 3500 Memphis
• Barron Elementary, 11155 Whitey Ford
• Bassett Middle, 4400 Elm
• Bonham Elementary, 7024 Cielo Vista
• Bowie High, 801 S. San Marcial
• Brown Middle, 7820 Helen of Troy
• Canyon Hills Middle, 8930 Eclipse
• Chapin High, 7000 Dyer
• Charles Middle, 4909 Trojan
• Clardy Elementary, 5508 Delta
• Coldwell Elementary, 4101 Altura
• Cooley Elementary, 107 N. Collingsworth
• Crockett Elementary, 3200 Wheeling
• Crosby Elementary, 5411 Wren
• El Paso High, 800 E. Schuster
• Fannin Elementary, 5425 Salem
• Franklin High, 900 N. Resler
• Green Elementary, 5430 Buckley
• Guerrero Elementary, 7530 Lakehurst
• Guillen Middle, 900 S. Cotton
• Hawkins Elementary, 5816 Stephenson
• Henderson Middle, 5505 Robert Alva
• Herrera Elementary, 350 Coates
• Hillside Elementary, 4500 Clifton
• Kohlberg Elementary, 1445 Nardo Goodman
• Lee Elementary, 7710 Pandora
• Logan Elementary, 3200 Ellerthorpe
• MacArthur Elementary, 8101 Whitus
• Magoffin Elementary, 4931 Hercules
• Mesita ECDC, 220 Lawton
• Morehead Middle, 5625 Confetti
• Moreno Elementary, 2300 San Diego
• Moye Elementary, 4825 Alps
• Nixon Elementary, 11141 Loma Roja
• Park Elementary, 3601 Edgar Park
• Putnam Elementary, 6508 Fiesta
• Rivera Elementary, 6445 Escondido
• Roberts Elementary, 341 Thorn
• Ross Middle, 6101 Hughey
• Rusk Elementary, 3601 N. Copia
• Stanton Elementary, 5414 Hondo Pass
• Terrace Hills Middle, 4835 Blossom
• Tom Lea Elementary, 4851Marcus Uribe
• Travis Elementary, 5000 N. Stevens
• Whitaker Elementary, 4700 Rutherford
• Wiggs Middle, 1300 Circle
• Zach White Elementary, 4256 Roxbury

Wednesday morning, officials with the El Paso Independent School District announced the launch EPISD Cares, a fundraising campaign to help El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank in their efforts to feed families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“EPISD is distributing 32,000 meals per week at 50 sites throughout the District in order to meet the dietary needs of children during school closures, but our teachers and staff expressed a desire to do even more,” said Superintendent Juan E. Cabrera.

“EPISD Cares was born from that commitment to service, which has been the cornerstone of this District for more than a century.”

All monetary donations made through the EPISD Cares Fund will go toward providing meals to El Paso families during the pandemic.

EPISD Cares is a fund from the Paso Del Norte Community Foundation, and donations can be made by accessing the fund site here.

The food bank has distributed close to 80,000 boxes of food to nearly 23,000 families in El Paso since the COVID-19 pandemic began impacting the Border.

Donations made to EPISD Cares will be matched dollar for dollar up to $1 million by the fund created through the partnership of the Paul L. Foster Family Foundation, the Woody & Gayle Hunt Family Foundation and the MountainStar Sports Group Foundation.