Food and Clothes for Jed Smith School

We have started a new program where we provide clothes and food for students at our partner elementary school, Jed Smith School.

In talking with the administrators at the school we learned that the students get fed breakfast and lunch during the school week, but often go hungry over the weekends. So we now have a group of volunteers who provide backpacks of food the children can take home on Fridays. If they bring the backpacks back to school the following week, we fill them again for the next weekend. We also have a clothes closet where they can get clothes for themselves or family members for free.

It is taking off like crazy. We can only meet a small amount of the need, but we hope to expand the program. You can see some pictures here.

Brian
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