Post by admin on Nov 13, 2009 10:08:00 GMT -5
Our schools are considering participation in an interesting program. From the Food bank web site:
During the school week, children get at least one nutritious meal a day through the School Lunch program, but weekends and school holidays are tough times for kids without enough food at home. In households where children must take turns eating meals, or go a whole day without, children arrive hungry or “chronically hungry” at school on Monday.
The Backpack Program feeds chronically hungry school children by providing them with a backpack of nutritious and easy-to-prepare foods to take home on weekends and over school vacations, when other resources are not available. Backpacks are usually filled on Friday afternoons. The FoodBank currently works with two local schools and an after school program.
www.foodbankmoc.org/?page_id=60
Any word on if the schools are going to do this? Also, what resources would the school have to dedicate to participate in the program? Costs to the schools?
The school system is certainly getting very generous between this, a generous lunch program and free day care, parents have less and less to worry about.
While on the subject of feeding the needy, take a look at the Food bank web site and please consider helping. With an awful economy and jobs drying up, it is predictable that charities will be looking for a little more this year.
www.foodbankmoc.org/
During the school week, children get at least one nutritious meal a day through the School Lunch program, but weekends and school holidays are tough times for kids without enough food at home. In households where children must take turns eating meals, or go a whole day without, children arrive hungry or “chronically hungry” at school on Monday.
The Backpack Program feeds chronically hungry school children by providing them with a backpack of nutritious and easy-to-prepare foods to take home on weekends and over school vacations, when other resources are not available. Backpacks are usually filled on Friday afternoons. The FoodBank currently works with two local schools and an after school program.
www.foodbankmoc.org/?page_id=60
Any word on if the schools are going to do this? Also, what resources would the school have to dedicate to participate in the program? Costs to the schools?
The school system is certainly getting very generous between this, a generous lunch program and free day care, parents have less and less to worry about.
While on the subject of feeding the needy, take a look at the Food bank web site and please consider helping. With an awful economy and jobs drying up, it is predictable that charities will be looking for a little more this year.
www.foodbankmoc.org/