Help Us: Blessings in a Backpack provides food for elementary school children across America who may otherwise have little or no food to eat on weekends during the school year. It will take a village (The Community) to Help End Child Hunger.
Each school week, food is transported to the school where a team of volunteers pack the backpacks and give them to the teachers to distribute at the school week’s end. The backpacks are nondescript so the children cannot be identified. Depending on the school, sometimes food is packed in plastic bags that are then put inside students’ regular backpack. Menu items are child-appropriate and vary dependent on each site’s food partner and the community being served. Examples include oatmeal, granola bars, ravioli, vegetables, raisins and other fruit.