First Coast Blessings in a Backpack is looking for special individuals who care about children to volunteer as program coordinators.
If you want to help children who are at risk of going hungry on the weekends, Blessings in a Backpack Program Coordinators help coordinate weekly packing of food bags for local children to take home on Fridays.
About Blessings in A Backpack
Blessings in a Backpack is a non-profit organization that feeds school children in the United States who currently are fed during the week on the federally funded Free and Reduced Meal Program and are at risk of going hungry on the weekends.
Its mission is to mobilize communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for elementary school children across America who might otherwise go hungry. The program works with elementary school-aged children whose families cannot afford enough food. Better test scores, improved reading skills, positive behavior, improved health and increased attendance have all been attributed to the success of this program.
Blessings in a Backpack addresses the issue of childhood hunger in St. Johns County.
Many children face a weekend without nutritious meals. As a result, they do not have the energy to participate in simple childhood activities and are focused many on their hunger pains.
Thanks to volunteers, our organization packs nutritious, easily-accessible, child-friendly bags or boxes of small meals and snacks which is given to them as they leave school on Friday.
The children who have these foods have the energy to participate in developmental activities and return to school on Monday ready to learn. Join us as we reach out to be a positive influence on the children in our county.
