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More Than 25,000 PepsiCo Employees Take 8 Billion Steps to Provide 6 Million Healthy School Meals to Students in The U.S., Sudan, Ethiopia, Honduras, Colombia and Canada
In the U.S., Steps Will Fund 45 "Grab-N-Go" Breakfast Carts to Serve 4.5 Million School Breakfasts Beginning in March PURCHASE, N.Y., March 6, 2020
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[{"type":"text","content":"In the U.S., Steps Will Fund 45 \"Grab-N-Go\" Breakfast Carts to Serve 4.5 Million School Breakfasts Beginning in March\n\n\nPURCHASE, N.Y., March 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of National School Breakfast Week, PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) and The PepsiCo Foundation announced today that more than 25,000 PepsiCo employees worldwide took 8 billion steps as part of a company-wide challenge to raise funds to address childhood hunger. In the U.S., The PepsiCo Foundation is funding \"grab-n-go\" breakfast carts with the youth wellness nonprofit GENYOUth that will serve 4.5 million breakfasts to nearly 25,000 students across the nation over the course of a year. Additionally, through a longstanding partnership with the World Food Programme, 1.6 million meals will be provided to children in Sudan, Ethiopia, Honduras, Colombia and Canada. \nApproximately 815 million people suffer from hunger globally, and in the U.S., more than 11 million children live in food-insecure households. Around 30 million students in the U.S. qualify for free or reduced-cost lunches, and for many students, school is often the only place where they can depend on receiving a nutritious meal. However, rushed morning schedules, late bus arrivals, and the social stigma of picking up a school breakfast in the cafeteria often prevent students from taking advantage of these meals. \nIn the U.S., The PepsiCo Foundation is partnering with GENYOUth to address these barriers by providing grants that will enable 45 schools to place mobile \"grab-n-go\" breakfast carts to help schools deliver a breakfast that meets USDA nutrition standards and provide students with a variety of fresh fruit, whole grains, including cereal, muffins, bagels, as well as dairy foods, including milk, yogurt and cheese sticks. Carts will be distributed at schools in eight states, including New York, California, and Georgia, which have some of the highest numbers of students living below the poverty line and eligible for school meals. Since 2017, The PepsiCo Foundation and GENYOUth have funded 112 \"grab-n-go\" breakfast carts at schools across in the U.S., providing 11 million meals and reaching more than 60,000 students.\nFunding for the carts and meals was driven as a result of employee steps through a PepsiCo employee challenge called Ready, Step, Move…Give! Organized by PepsiCo's wellbeing p...