Over 250 bags filled with nutritious, easy-to-prepare meals and snacks go out every weekend to students in need throughout the Monroe School District!
7 schools
in the Monroe School District
participate in our program.
1 out of 5 children
in Snohomish County
sometimes goes hungry.
1,250 pounds
of food or more is distributed in
these bags every week.
To combat the growing problem of childhood hunger in Snohomish County, in 2011 we began distributing emergency weekend food backpacks to 14 kindergarteners at Frank Wagner Elementary. The backpacks contained five pounds of nutritious, easily-prepared food, enough for two breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. Over the next five years, we added first and second-grade classrooms, serving a weekly average of 58 students during that time. In 2017, we added all the grades at Frank Wagner, along with students in need at four other schools, and the program doubled in size.
It takes our volunteers about 12 hours every week to fill the 250 or more backpacks so that these children don’t have to spend 48 hours every weekend experiencing the despair of hunger.
