Backpack Food Program For Schools

Bwfp is dedicated to providing healthy non perishable meals to students to take home on the weekend during the school year so they can come to school the following week better nourished and ready to learn.

Backpack food program for schools. The concept is simple. In total the backpack program served 19 051 chronically hungry elementary school students attending 481 schools. Backpack food programs aim to close the gap in meals for children between friday lunch and monday breakfast by providing food for children over breaks during the school year such as weekends and longer holidays. Through the backpack program which is part of the food for kids programs children receive a backpack full of kid friendly non perishable and nutritious food on friday to sustain them over weekends and school holidays.

All food is child friendly packaged in four set menus including milks proteins fruit vegetable cereals and 100 fruit juices. Children at risk of weekend hunger receive a bag of food that is child friendly nutritious nonperishable and easy to eat. The growth spurt in kids requires an adequate diet that can work to improve their metabolic rate and this where our completely customizable backpack program comes in to save the day. Backpack programs provide kids with whole grains fruits vegetables and micronutrients needed for proper growth and development.

Feed more s backpack program provides children who don t have enough to eat with nutritious easy to prepare food at times when other resources are not available. Every backpack food program is unique to the community and school it serves. Twenty two million children receive free or reduced price meals through the national school lunch program and the national school breakfast program. The backpack program helps alleviate child hunger by discreetly providing hungry children with backpacks full of nutritious and easy to prepare food on friday afternoons so they have food to eat throughout the weekend.

The objective of our food backpack program is to fight childhood hunger in our community by filling the weekend food gap for children in need. Today bags of food are assembled at more than. Last year the regional food bank saw a dramatic increase in the need for food assistance. Packaged meal kit provide nutritious solutions for backpack programs that are both cost effective and shelf stable for up to 6 months or more.

The backpack weekend food program inc. In 2018 our backpack program distributed 39 321 backpacks containing 486 742 pounds of food to 1 258 children at 9 elementary schools in los angeles and compton unified school districts. Although free and reduced breakfast and lunch programs provide significant nutritional benefits to students during the school day many disadvantaged children do not have access to regular meals when school is not in session. The each backpack contained enough food for at least six nutritious meals to ensure that each child did not go hungry over the weekend.

Food is delivered each thursday. Backpack food programs provide nutritious non perishable easy to prepare food to children to ensure they get enough food on weekends and holidays to avoid hunger when they can t depend on school meals. What is a backpack food program. For many of these children school meals may be the only meals they eat.

We provide child friendly nutritious food directly to children in need over the weekends. For more than 15 years the feeding america backpack program has been helping children get the nutritious and easy to prepare food they need to get enough to eat on the weekends. Backpack programs prove to be a viable alternative for weekend food for children who might not have adequate food until monday morning in school.