More Than A Bag Of Food...
The Table
More Than A Bag Of Food...
Food4Kids (otherwise known as our Backpack Program) delivers more than 200 bags of weekend food to local schools in the Sumner-Bonney Lake School District each week.
You see, school is not just a place to learn and make friends for some kids, it's also where they eat on a consistent basis. Each day hundreds of local kids rely on school breakfasts, lunches, and snacks as their primary source of nourishment for the day. On weekends, this disappears.
We recognize the importance of nutritional food for our youth to develop and grow. A lack of nutrition has lasting effects; such as not meeting developmental milestones, learning disabilities and lack of focus, feelings of stress or depression. Hungry children also struggle academically and have behavioral or emotional issues.
Luckily, programs like Food4Kids fills this heartbreaking gap. Each bag consists of 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners, and multiple drinks and snacks. All are ready to make and easy to prepare, to ensure there are no barriers to kids filling their stomachs. We know that Fridays are days that create anxiety for many kids as they head into the unknown of the weekend...but when they lift up their backpack at the end of the day and feel the weight of the food within it, it takes one less worry off their plate.
The Food4Kids programs provides weekend food so children stay nourished and come back to school ready to learn.
We are thankful for our partnerships and sponsors that make this incredible program possible. Thank you to the Bonney Lake and Enumclaw Safeway for their devotion to this cause during the month of September, as they raised money at the register during the Nourishing Neighbors Campaign for kids healthy breakfasts. Thank you to Haggen Lake Tapps store during their Hunger Heroes ‘register’ campaign during September through October 26th.
Finally, THANK YOU to our community members who donated during these two campaigns to provide food for children.
-Stacey
THE MARKET - Bonney Lake Food Bank
info@bonneylakefoodbank.org
24015 State Route 410, Buckley WA 98321
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