The Weekend Backpack Program, started in September, originally expected to serve around 50 families. As of last week, 82 families have joined the program, providing food to about 230 students. Rob ...
With SNAP benefits not being issued after Friday, programs in both school districts are being expanded Escambia County schools' Backpack Project already provides food to around 500 students each ...
About 12 years ago, teachers and counselors in Spring Hill ISD saw a need they needed to fill: hunger. For many of the district’s most needy and impoverished students, the only consistent meals they ...
Golden Eagle Backpack Co-Director Amy Shanafelt accepts food donations from the Saint Matthew School Entrepreneurial Program members (front, from left) Jade Campbell and Ryleigh Musselman and (back, ...