We mobilize our local community to help kids return to school on Monday, ready to learn. Blessings in a Backpack partners with schools, churches, business and community based organizations to ensure that food insecure school children are fed on the weekends throughout the school year. Blessings in a Backpack is a results oriented program that partners directly with schools. We view our school teams as the experts and they refer the children to our program that they know are hungry and hurting. Dependent upon the federal meal programs for food during the school week, these children leave school on Friday and do not know when or if they will eat again until the Monday bell rings. Together with our school partners, Blessings creates a nutritional safety net of healthy meals 7 days a week for these food insecure children. A critical gap in nutrition is now filled with healthy food every single weekend throughout the school year. This partnership allows each child to arrive to school nourished and ready to learn. It cost $175 to feed one for an entire school year. Every Thursday we bring the weekend nutrition to the school, every Friday it is placed into their backpacks, and every Saturday and Sunday each child has something nutritious and delicious to eat, something made just for them. This is how we create Hunger Free Weekends right here in North Florida!
