Bath YMCA resumes free summer meals for local children
Free summer meals are back at the Bath YMCA, with deliveries starting the week of June 22 for kids and teens in Bath and Brunswick. School-year grocery drops also continue.
The Bath Area Family YMCA resumed free summer meal deliveries for children and teens in Bath and Brunswick, with service beginning the week of June 22 as school cafeterias closed for the season.
The meals are free prepared meals meant to make summer feeding easier for local households. A 2025 flyer called the breakfasts and lunches “grab and go” meals for children and teens. Last summer, staff and volunteers delivered meals every weekday from June 23 to Aug. 22 to 12 locations in Bath and Brunswick.
Veggie Van Wednesdays provide weekly groceries to Bath-area families experiencing food insecurity, and new families can still be added by contacting the organization. A separate Thursday grocery route with Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program runs year-round from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m., using volunteers to pick up and distribute groceries to homebound families.
The Bath Area BackPack Program started in 2014 with 10 children at Dike-Newell School and has grown to serve more than 200 children from kindergarten through high school. It currently serves Bath, Phippsburg and Woolwich, and helps children who might otherwise go hungry on weekends and vacations when school meals are unavailable.
SUN Bucks and SUN Meals returned for summer 2026. The U.S. Department of Agriculture provides free meals and snacks to children 18 and under at approved sites. Feeding America’s 2025 Map the Meal Gap study says nearly 20% of children nationally experienced food insecurity, and its Maine data say 1 in 5 children face hunger in the state. Maine’s ending hunger dashboard puts household food insecurity at 12.9% in 2022-2024, with 4.6% of households experiencing very low food security.
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