It’s time for kids throughout the Las Vegas Valley to return to the classroom. It’s a time of excitement and hope as they look forward to making new discoveries and new friends that help shape the future they dream about.
But more than 110,000 food-insecure Clark County elementary and middle school students simply hope to get enough to eat, especially on weekends when they can’t access school food programs.
It’s time for SOK to kick-off our new campaign to help meet their needs. Our goal is to provide weekend meal bags to 5,000 kids each week.
That takes more money to buy more food. It takes more volunteers to create weekend meal bags and deliver them to more than 98 schools. It takes more caring, generous people like you to donate the time, energy and money to help reach this goal and feed more hungry kids.
Our recent school survey confirms that SOK weekend meal bags improve student health and wellness, school attendance, and academic performance. Of those students receiving SOK weekend meal bags, the survey revealed:
However, it also shows that 56% of kids who receive a weekend meal bag share their food with family members. We’re making great progress, but needs keeps growing. And so must we.
We’ll be posting lots of new volunteer opportunities for the upcoming school year on servingourkids.org by the end of July. Please ask your family, friends and colleagues to get involved. It’s easy. It’s fun. It’s important.
It’s time to join our crusade to end child hunger and help feed the dreams of food-insecure kids throughout the school year.