Blessings in a Backpack help kids keep fed when school’s out
As many as 90-percent of children in some southeast Michigan communities don’t have enough food to eat on the weekends. They can get food at school through free and reduced-fee programs during the week, but then show up for school on Monday mornings hungry, and not at all ready to learn because there’s not enough to eat at home. There are about 20 million children in the country like them.
The Blessings in a Backpack program is helping to remedy the situation by providing them a drawstring pack of food for six meals over the weekend. Children go home with food like tuna, peanut butter, macaroni and cheese, fruit juice, pasta, oatmeal, fruit bars and soup.