Kids Cafe is an after-school and summer meal program that provides nutritious snacks and meals to children ages 5-18 who are at risk for hunger.  Kids Cafe programs often supplement food assistance with nutrition education activities as well as homework help, mentoring, and recreational opportunities.

In 1989, two young brothers broke into the kitchen of a housing project's community center in Savannah, Georgia looking for food.  When discovered, the older child calmly explained to the police officer, "My brother was hungry."  Presented with this situation of children in need, the Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia opened the first kitchen in the nation to feed needy children exclusively on June 17, 1989.

Four years later, America's Second Harvest, the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the U.S., officially launched Kids Cafe as a national program.  Kids Cafe has grown to become one of the country's largest meal service programs.  More information on this program is available on the A2H web site page for Kids Cafe.

In November of 2001, America's Second Harvest released its third and most comprehensive study of hunger in the United States: Hunger in America. According to this study, over 9 million children are the recipients of food from either a pantry, kitchen or shelter within the network of America's Second Harvest.  Kids Cafes around the nation are helping to combat this problem.