Food Bank launches ‘Adopt-a-Buddy’ program

Feb 3, 2012

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The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri has started an “Adopt a Buddy” module so that it can continue to yield food for propagandize children over weekends.
The Food Bank’s Buddy Pack module provides a lowest children with healthy food to take home over a weekend, when they don’t get propagandize lunches. This includes children in Randolph, Monroe, Macon, Chariton and Boone Counties. The rising cost of food is melancholy a program, that might have to be cut behind or even eliminated.
“I’ve been during a food bank for 20 years, and we’ve never had to cut a program,” Food Bank Executive Director Peggy Kirkpatrick pronounced in a release, “and we don’t wish to start now—especially a module that is changing a lives of children in need.”
In Randolph County, 2,260 kids financially validate for giveaway and reduced labelled lunches during school, according to a Food Bank. Several of these students do not have entrance to a sufficient food supply on a weekends or during breaks from school. The Food Bank partners with Gratz Brown, North Park, South Park and Renick R-5 Elementary Schools and sends food home with 350 students any week.
With that in mind, a Food Bank is seeking Randolph County adults for help, seeking 350 sponsors in a county to “adopt” one tyro each. To unite a child for a full propagandize year, a cost is $180, or $15 a month for 12 months. When donating, people have a choice to mention that they wish their concession to go to children in a specific county.
“If 350 of a partners in Randolph County ‘adopt’ only one child, we will be means to means this indispensable module for 2012 and grow it where it’s needed,” Kirkpatrick said.
Overall, a Food Bank serves 8,600 students in 32 counties in executive and northeast Missouri by a Buddy Pack program.
At a start of a propagandize year, a Food Bank estimated a Buddy Pack would cost $100 per tyro for both semesters. Within dual months a cost had increasing to $150, and a Food Bank now estimates a cost will be during slightest $180 per child before 2012 is over.
The Food Bank, before a Central Missouri Food Bank, distributes giveaway food to 138 facile schools by a Buddy Pack module and to 135 hunger-relief agencies, such as internal food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters. The Food Bank network helps to feed scarcely 100,000 people per month. In 2010, 98.5 percent of donations was spent directly on food merger and distribution, according to a Food Bank’s website.
To get some-more information, or to Adopt a Buddy, people can go to sharefoodbringhope.org/adoptabuddy or they can mail donations to a Food Bank at: The Food Bank, 2101 Vandiver Drive, Columbia, MO 65202. People can also make a concession over a phone by job 573-474-1020.

 

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