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Backpack Club Food Drive: We have an awesome opportunity to help some of our own Nebo School District Students who may not have access to food on the weekends after they leave the school. On May 16 & 17 we will be collecting food items to take to a local Junior High school to help stock their “backpack club”. This is an optional service opportunity for our students If you would like to participate. We will collect all the food items in the front foyer of the school on these two identified dates and they will be delivered to the local junior high on the afternoon of May 17th, just in time for the Summer Break. Please read the following provided information from the school: The students who will benefit from this program are identified as “homeless”. This means they may have been kicked out by parents and are living with friends, or be living with relatives due to hardship. We have one family who lives with Grandparents because their mobile home just burned down. Some may have just come from Mexico and have no warm clothes or school supplies. Each kid has a different circumstances. Some of my kids in the Backpack club are not "homeless" but there is just no food in the home. I have one student who takes 4-6 kits each week because that is what he eats when he is home. On Fridays all the kids who receive a kit are called down to the office to grab a food kit. Students will take a kit for themselves as well as sibling if they need it. All of the kids really appreciate the food! Backpack food kits include the following (We make sure it is nonperishable food that the kids can prepare themselves):
2 Dinners: Ramen, Individual Mac and Cheese, or canned Ravioli, spaghetti, ect (any combination of 2 is good)
2 Breakfasts: 2 Instant Oatmeal Packs
3 Snacks: 2 granola bars (any kid of bar--like power, fiber one, cliff bars, ect); 1 cracker or cookie pack (like peanut butter crackers or pb&j crackers and cracker & cheese kits)
1 Fruit: Applesauce or fruit cup
1 or more Optional Items such as:
Poptarts
Fruit Roll ups
Trail Mix or dried fruit
Individually wrapped candy or candy bars
We had such a great experience with our last service opportunity we wanted to give it one more go! Thanks in advance to those of you who are willing to send items to help a local school in need!