Indiana Has A Great Idea To Feed Kids
It’s amazing to me how many kids in our country go hungry. I wasn’t in the teaching profession long, but I saw many kids go without food while I did teach. Last year, I raised over $800 to give to the Gaston County Schoool System to help kids in need of food when they go home. It is just heartbreaking to me.
An Indiana school district has come up with an awesome solution to make sure that kids have enough to eat. That’s where the South Bend-based non-profit Cultivate comes in: it provides weekend meals to a small group of students in the elementary school pilot program in the Elkhart Community School system.
The non-profit will “rescue” unused food from catering companies, and large service food businesses. Then they take that food and combine it with other food and make individual frozen meals out if it. This way kids will have food that they can take home for the weekend. 20 students will receive a backpack with eight individual frozen meals every Friday until the end of school.
I think this is a brilliant idea! We all waste so much food, myself included. And it’s shocking how many kids go without. It’d be so cool if we could do something like this here! You can read more on the story here.
If you have an ideas on how to start something like this here, let me know! I’d love to help!