More than $4,100 Donated in Honor of World Hunger Day to Feed Kids This Summer
We are blown away by the result of our World Hunger Day campaign!
More than $4,100 was donated to provide hunger-free weekends for 300 kids in Southwest Florida over the summer through Blessings community partners.
Thank you!
We also want to thank our friends at the Spartan Kids Foundation, who matched $3,000 in donations for World Hunger Day.
“Servant leadership is why I donated,” Blessings supporter Russell A. shared with us. “Be the change you see and leave the world better than you found it.”
During the school year, food-insecure students eat meals at school during the week and have Blessings in a Backpack on Saturday and Sunday. While many kids look forward to the long summer break, millions of children will not be fed as they usually would — they lose consistent access to food.
“People may think I have it all covered, but I don’t,” the parent of a Blessings child said. “Blessings in a Backpack… means I don’t have to choose between a traditional meal for my kids or medicine. I can’t say thank you enough to everyone involved.”
The funds raised through the World Hunger Day campaign will help Blessings distribute bags of ready-to-eat food to kids this summer who might otherwise go hungry. Because of your generosity, we are one step closer to ending childhood hunger on the weekends.