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| Making a difference One Back Pack at a Time! |
The Des Moines Area Food Bank has partnered with the Highline School District to distribute backpacks of food to children at risk of hunger over the weekends. Of the 5,000 children in the elementary schools in the Highline School District, almost 3,000 qualify for the federal and reduced breakfast and lunch programs. With this program, backpacks filled with 6 kid-friendly meals are delivered to the schools for check-out on Fridays and are returned by the students on Monday. For some children, these are their only two meals of the day. The backpack program represents an innovative way of providing families with additional resources to meet the basic food needs of their children.
Each month, the Rotary Club of Des Moines participates in the Des Moines Food Bank Back Pack program. Club members fill up to 400 backpacks to be distributed that weekend to children in need. Rotarian and Community Service Chair,Steve Swank, brought this program to the attention of the Rotary Club of Des Moines several years ago and it has been an important part of the club's community outreach ever since. "We are thrilled to be giving back in such a meaningful way, knowing that we are helping the children in our community," Swank said at the last back pack program of the season.
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| Taking Care of Business - Rotary Style |
For more information about this program, please visit www.myfoodbank.org .
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