Central Florida Charity provides Summer Lunch Program for inner-city Sanford kids.

Darden Restaurants and Metric Engineering are each sponsoring a week of the event. Other sponsors include Courtesy Acura, Sonny’s Bar-B-Q, Bucks Restaurant, Lee’s Chicken, Pizza Hut, Angelo’s Pizzeria, and Twilight Teeth.

The Central Florida Dream Center is located in the heart of inner-city Sanford and children within walking distance to the center live in such impoverished homes, that unfortunately many will go hungry during the summer without their school lunch program. The mission of the Central Florida Dream Center is to empower these families to self sufficiency. As a faith based organization The Dream Center receives no government funding. Their 46,000 sq. ft. warehouse is a future one stop mall of hope to these families. In addition to the Summer Lunch Program the Dream Center provides after school tutoring & mentoring, teen pregnancy prevention classes, drug prevention classes, parenting classes, job skills training and more.

More sponsors and volunteers are needed to help feed the body, soul, and spirit in this community. For more information, or to get involved, contact Jackie Benjamin at jackieb@cfdreamcenter.org or 407-302-8880 ext.20.