Best Blessings in Backpacks Food Kids Program
For a lot of kids, food is their most important school supply. Because when kids have enough food, they do better in school. At Blessings in Backpack Food Kids, we ensure that kids nationwide have full bellies over the weekend by sending them home on Fridays with backpacks full of satisfying and healthy food. There are many ways for you to get involved.
Blessings in Backpacks Food Kids
Do you know what it’s like to go hungry? 1 in 4 American children do. Thirst hunger and appetite unfulfilled in a country of great wealth are concerns that no child should have. Three out of every five students in the united states public school system qualify for the federal free and reduced-price meal program. But for too many, the food stops coming when the final bell rings on Friday afternoon.
To feed the kids who are coming to school working hard at school. And maybe there’s a little bit of a reward through blessings in backpacks food kids that on Friday afternoons we give them some food to take home and share with their family.
Packed during the week by volunteers and handed out on Fridays, it costs just eighty dollars to feed one student for an entire school year.
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Founded in 2005 blessings in backpacks food kids has become an increasingly effective program in turning around student performance at school.
Every measurable goes up in grades, attendance, self-esteem, test scores school ratings among the community. One thing does go down and that’s the nurses’ visits especially on Mondays the kids are coming back with food in their stomachs. They are not restless, not hungry, not sick because they’ve had food for the weekend.
Blessings in a Backpack Food List
Blessings in a Backpack Mission Statement
Blessings in a Backpack Headquarter Location
4121 Shelbyville Rd.
Louisville, Kentucky, 4020,
United States
800-872-4366
Because of Blessings in backpacks food kids, fewer children are going hungry over the weekend but too many still don’t have a program in their community. With your help, we can change that.
