By Chris Evans | Executive Director, Feed Northland Kids
Our first round of our new Community Food Kit program served 9300 families in a 14-week time span. With the continuing pandemic, many families in our area need on-going assistance.
We launched a second round of Community Food Kits in September. Seven Northland school districts are participating and our distribution sites are now on school properties. Included is a nice photo overview of how we pack and distribute 700 kits each week. To date, over 6,000 families have picked up or received this 14-lb bag of shelf-stable food with a fresh loaf of bread. NEW this time, is a lovely 12 lb produce box.
We receive heartfelt gratitude from our families. One woman is a server who lost her job and was very uncertain how she would continue to feed her family. She was thrilled to pick up a kit and produce box from one of our larger school district sites and told us "I didn' t know what I was going to do, then our school social worker sent the info about your program. You are amazing, thank you". Another family receiving these kits via delivery is a recently widowed Mom with four kids. She homeschools the kids during the pandemic due to health issues for several of her children. Her husband's death was unexpected and she is having difficulty dealing with so many things at once. Food and produce arriving each week to her door has helped her tremendously.
Our hope is to continue this program through the end of the current school year, totalling over 20,000 kits. For more information and additional photo's visit our website and facebook page.
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