Sentences with phrase «backpack buddies program»

Murphy helped start the school's Backpack Buddies program, which gives bags of food to students who might be going home to bare pantries, and helps prepare bags for 120 students every week.

Plum delivered the bags to students who are part of the Backpack Buddies program.

CRF helps nourish children at Wiley Elementary School by funding the weekly Backpack Buddies program to provide meals to children on weekends.

CRF provides funding for the Backpack Buddies program - in partnership with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and St. Michael's Episcopal Church - so that during the school year, weekly backpacks filled with balanced meals are sent home to students and their families who are at risk of hunger every Friday

They have been entrenched in this as volunteers and as peers of kids who benefit from the Backpack Buddies program.

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Schools in many rural and low - income communities are trying to combat hunger through a program called Backpack Buddies.