Backpack Food Program

Food bags provide nutritious meals for children over the weekends when they might otherwise go hungry.

Backpack food program. Please contact the food bank to learn more about the backpack program onboarding process. The objective of our food backpack program is to fight childhood hunger in our community by filling the weekend food gap for children in need. Backpack program fact sheet. We are excited to talk to potential new backpack partner schools about enrolling in the backpack program throughout the school year.

Programs backpack food program funded by grants and community donations the backpack food program provides a weekend s worth of healthy well balanced meals in small bags. More than 1 600 children in 61 schools in springfield and across the ozarks benefit from this innovative life saving. We provide child friendly nutritious food directly to children in need over the weekends. Feed more s backpack program provides children who don t have enough to eat with nutritious easy to prepare food at times when other resources are not available.

Today bags of food are assembled at more than 160 local food banks and then distributed to more than 450 000 children at the end of the week. Backpack food programs provide nutritious non perishable easy to prepare food to children to ensure they get enough food on weekends and holidays to avoid hunger when they can t depend on school meals. For more than 15 years the feeding america backpack program has been helping children get the nutritious and easy to prepare food they need to get enough to eat on the weekends. The bags are given to the students teachers every thursday to be discreetly placed into the child s backpack on friday.

At the community food bank we partner with schools and organizations in tucson and surrounding communities to provide low income students with backpacks full of healthy child friendly meals and snacks for the weekend. Every backpack food program is unique to the community and school it serves. The backpack program continues to grow. Our thanks to fiesta bowl charities for a 10 000 grant to help fund the childhood nutrition program.

Backpack food program models backpack food programs aim to close the gap in meals for children between friday lunch and monday breakfast by providing food for children over breaks during the school year such as weekends and longer holidays. Children at risk of weekend hunger receive a bag of food that is child friendly nutritious nonperishable and easy to eat.