Do you know that 34,000 of the 69,900 kids in Greenville County schools receive free or reduced price meals at school? Sadly many of these same kids often don’t have much to eat at home at night or on the weekends.
This fall Loaves & Fishes will launch Mission Backpack. Working with generous sponsors in our community, three elementary schools will receive food for 25 of their most at risk students to take home each weekend.
Sponsors are responsible for obtaining the child friendly shelf stable food by purchasing or recruiting donations of specific foods. Volunteers are needed to shop for food and to inventory food on hand each week. Additional volunteers are needed to back the bags that will go home with the children on the last day of school each week. Delivery drivers will bring the packed bags to the schools on mutually agreed-upon dates.
Although there are backpack programs in a number of schools in Greenville County, more sponsors are needed. Sponsors can be churches, civic groups, businesses or professional organizations – any group that has a heart for hungry kids.
Please contact Loaves & Fishes at 864-232-3595 to learn how your group can become a sponsor or get teamed up with others to help feed hungry kids.
