The following information was adapted from the Idaho Foodbank website: In the spirit of volunteerism that is at the heart of Martin Luther King Jr. – Idaho Human Rights Day, hundreds of volunteers, including our Grade 4 students and families, gathered on Monday, Jan. 17, at The Idaho Foodbank’s Boise warehouse to assemble the food items that are handed out in backpacks to 2,000 Idaho children every week.
The goal of this huge assembly-line process was to “build” 5,000 backpacks. Because for too many Idaho children, Saturday and Sunday are the longest days of the week as they wait for Monday and the school meals they depend on. Backpacks fill that weekend gap.
Kerry Fitzharris, one of our two Grade 4 teachers, explained that, “We packed 1000 bags in about 1 hour and 10 minutes! Each completed bag weighed about six pounds. These bags will now be distributed to teachers in schools, who will put them into the take-home backpacks. The backpacks are then returned to the schools for another refill.”
For more information about the Idaho Foodbank’s Backpack Program, visit http://www.idahofoodbank.org/?page=backpack-program.
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