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Because Hunger...doesn't take a weekend break.
82% of children enrolled in the St. Louis Public School District rely on free or reduced cost meals. For those children, weekends are filled with hunger and despair.
Operation Back Pack exists to help meet the nutritional needs of children over the weekend.
Back Packs full of nutritious, kid-friendly, easy to prepare foods are given to children on Friday before school dismissal. Each back pack contains two proteins, two grains, two snacks, two fruits and/or vegetables, and one dairy item. On Monday, students return the empty back packs and the cycle continues.
To help, sponsor a child, classroom, or school. Donations and volunteers are needed to support this program.
2008 School Year
Launched in the spring semester of 2008, Operation Back Pack had six schools enrolled with 440 low-income children receiving back packs each weekend. Nearly 3,000 back packs were provided to these children. Dedicated volunteers helped pack back packs each week.
Operation Back Pack Partners
Operation Food Search would like to thank the following foundations and corporations for generously supporting Operation Back Pack:
Anheuser-Busch Foundation
Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation
Deaconess Foundation
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation
Moneta Group Charitable Foundation
Sander Foundation
Save A Lot
Sunnen Foundation
Trio Foundation
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